Patricia Ireland Quotes

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

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  Thinking, Optimism, Being Positive

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

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  Equality, Sisterhood, People

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• 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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  Men, Mind, Faces

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• All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

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  Stupid, Humorous, Snakes

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• 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?

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  Children, Men, Discipline

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• 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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  New Day, Judging, Important

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• the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

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  Party, Two, Evil

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• 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.

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  Numbers, Statistics, Blame

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• 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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  Girl, Racism, Empowerment

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• 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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  Opportunity, Miami, Looks

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• 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.

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  Children, Racism, Decision

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• 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.

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  Florida, Issues, African American

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• Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

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  Sex, Issues, Fairness

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• 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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  Dream, Moving, Vision

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

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  Christian, Giving, Belief

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

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  Mean, Advice, Rubber

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

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  Running, House, President

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• Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.

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  Jobs, Here I Am, People

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

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  Equality, Littles, Food Stamps

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• 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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  Christian, Roots, Years

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

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  Focus, Looks, May

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• 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.

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  School, Fighting, Men

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• 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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  Boys, Men, Weight

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• 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.

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  Home, Political, Violence

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• 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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  Home, Reality, May

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