Patricia Ireland Quotes

• In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

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  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Important

• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fought, Regardless, Grounds, Worth, Campaign

• Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tenacious, Battle

• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Machine, County, Rejected, Ballot

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

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  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Attack, Virulent, Defend

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discarded, Voter, Count, American

• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amendment, Shocked, Equal Rights, Master

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we’re not going to change their minds.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Men

• I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Progressive, Democratic, Split, Hispanic, Oppose, Nominate, Minority

• Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we’re not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emotionally, Friends, Safe, Fence, Reality

• Jesus never said anything about homos*xuality.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jesus

• There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Election, Canvassing, Door, Phone

• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim’s advocate’s statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it’s far too many.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Victim, Opposition, Blame

• Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women’s lives in our entirety.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organize, Entirety, Violence, Focus

• We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it’s a public and political problem. It’s a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Problem, Public, Violence

• We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tough

• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Effort, Family

  Tags in Obligation, Discipline, Head

• I know that it isn’t just violence against women, it’s how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It’s a bigger picture.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bigger, Support

• Most of us see Justice O’Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Icon, Agree

• My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women’s and children’s empowerment and ending racism.

  Patricia Ireland

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Grassroots, Empowerment

Patricia Ireland (35)

Birth:	19th October, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Administrator, Feminist

About

Patricia Ireland is a U.S. administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women, from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996. Ireland attended DePauw University and obtained a Bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1966 and a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1975. She also attended Florida State University College of Law.

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