65 Quotes by Eleanor Smeal

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    Toys today are more stereotyped than they were 20 years ago; the market is even more segmented. And they can go into their own kitchen anytime they want, for God's sake. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't matter because girls are doing everything anyway, even being soldiers.

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    We cannot have a time when those of us who are protesting current policies are going to be compared to terrorists or their values. We have to stand up now before we have a period of silencing all meaningful discussion in our country.

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    Every inch of the way, the drug has shown its safety, and each of the groups here and certainly us have been satisfied with the safety.

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    Democrats have been saying for years to their women's rights and civil rights base: 'Vote for us, and we'll save the Supreme Court.' Now, they have stepped back from using that power.

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    In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.

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    Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it’s funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you’ve got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

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    Just think – guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don’t.

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    There’s no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

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