35 Quotes by Ginny Brown-Waite

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.