122 Quotes by Shirley Chisholm

No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.