Eleanor Smeal Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Mean, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.blogher.com

• I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

• It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Country, Rights, House

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

• Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Determination, New York, Years

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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