Carolyn Maloney Quotes

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• We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

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  Mother, Daughter, Law

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• I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Country, Children, Moving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Where are the women? The women are here.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Badass

  Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I asked, "What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?" And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton's run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn't win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Running, Believe, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Law, America, Long

  "Let’s Renew VAWA Today" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Usually women are the lynchpins of the family. They carry the brunt of the work at home and of being mothers and of taking care of the children. Not always. I have a wonderful husband, who is a great father and has helped tremendously at home. And I think that men are getting in touch and I think that the role that they have is so important, to be a good father and have a good career and be a good husband. But I think that as more and more women go into the workforce, you have to have more help at home and it becomes more of a sharing of responsibilities.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're going to school for higher education in higher numbers, but the numbers still show we're not breaking though the glass ceiling. For every Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton there are millions of women stuck in cement on the floor that are not getting up.

  Carolyn Maloney

  School, Clinton, Higher Education

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• When I started working, women were working at 59 cents to the dollar. We got a raise, but it's still unfair. We're still 16 percent of Congress, even though we're 51 percent of the population. We're a low percentage of our CEOs. We're a low percentage of boards and being part of boards.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Unfair, Ceo

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• I think that changing stereotypes and attitudes, it takes time. As we progress and we have more women astronauts and more women in construction sites and everything else, then we're making progress. Discrimination is deeply embedded in our community, but we do have the tools to combat it.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Attitude, Thinking, Community

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• The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Way, Constitution, Women Equality

  "Women’s Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

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  Adults, United States, Nine

  "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And we have made progress. We did pass the anti-discrimination law, Title 7, Title 9, equality in the workplace, equality in education and in sports and in all these other areas. But enforcement is very hard. Changing stereotypes is very hard.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Sports, Feminist, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Horror Stories, Easy, Bank Accounts

  "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mom, Badass, Mean

  Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Smart, Believe, Wife

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• I would say that the race of Hillary Clinton was very important to this country, because it showed that a woman could win the state, that a woman could raise money. I think that every woman is sitting a little taller, not only in our own country, but I think women around the world watch what's happening in the United States.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Country, Winning, Thinking

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• I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Believe, Sick, Paid

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• Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Law, Decision, Important

  "A new version of the ERA" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. August 25, 1999.

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• I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Support, Proud, Bills

  "Let’s Renew VAWA Today" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.

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• You see we're a country that talks about family values. But we haven't passed anything to help family values since the Family and Medical Leave Act. And the Family and Medical Leave Act was one of the first things I voted on when I came to Congress. It was very thrilling to me, because when my first child was born, I was terrified of being fired. When my second child was born, I was a member of the city council, and in some ways it was easier to respond to 250 constituents than it was to respond to one employer.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Country, Children, Helping

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Rights, Constitution

  "Women’s Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Rights, Constitution

  "Let’s Put It in Writing: Women Are Equal" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Law, Proposal

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• We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Cities, Balance, Needs

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• I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies. And they said, "Leave policies? Women just leave and they don't come back." And I said, "But I want to come back." They said, "We have no leave policy." And then they said, "Why don't you apply for disability?" Well, having a child is not a disability.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Children, Office, Disability

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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