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" All of the men on my staff can type. "
Men
Staff
Type
" As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo. "
Know
Change
Women
" A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives. "
Representatives
Woman
Place
" I am not a centrist. "
Centrist
Am
I Am
" I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. "
Identity
Meeting
Me
" I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession. "
Office
Run
Profession
" Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments. "
May
Action
Women
" I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. "
Housewife
Word
Because
" I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure. "
Power
Political
Day
" Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. "
Today
Get
Professor
" Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together. "
Struggle
Society
Political
" The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. "
Little
Frightened
Very
" The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. "
Job
You
Test
" We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence. "
Human Rights
Women
Diversity
" We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us. "
Vision
Women
Politics
" We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. "
Equality
Down
Up
" When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats. "
Business
World
Women
" Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. "
You
Women
Way
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