Patricia Ireland Quotes

• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

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  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Empowerment

• Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

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  Tags in Senate, Consent

• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

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  Tags in Familiar, English, Thumb

• Bush’s choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

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  Tags in Confirmation, Supreme Court

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

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  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Christian, Insight

• I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

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  Tags in Pessimism, Cynicism, Optimism

• I’ve talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it’s an important issue whether it’s going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

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  Tags in Violence Against Women, Enforcement

• Is a woman ra*ed every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

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  Tags in Violence Against Women

• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won’t tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

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  Tags in Tolerate, Train, Provides, Violence Against Women

• The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

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  Tags in Weight

• The Young Women’s Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it’s been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.

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  Tags in Diversity, Enriched, Nourished

• They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

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  Tags in Compassionate, Ruthless, Reactionaries

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

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  Tags in Issue, Somehow

• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

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  Tags in Equality

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

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  Topics in Leadership, Power

  Tags in Equality

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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