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Millicent Fenwick

Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick (February 25, 1910 – September 16, 1992) was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm. She was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement. She was considered the inspiration behind Lacey Davenport, a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury.

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When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax. '. . . The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

Couple, Hands, Married, Men, Percent, Work

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

Etiquette, Paradoxes, People, Principles, Roots, Trivialities

The business of government is justice.

Business, Government, Justice

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.

Giving, Gossip, Government, Nothing, Power, Terrifying

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

Concerned, Injustice, Needs, Occurs, Wherever

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Age, Everything, Miracle, Old Age, Sort

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Care, Government, People, Power, Self Control

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

Closed, Door, Doors, Politics, Room, Rooms

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Conditions, Economics, Produce, Results, Sense, Under

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Behavior, Code, Community, Inevitable, Should Have

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests. . . . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

Interests, Men, Moving, Opinion, Thinking, Together

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

Doors, Matters, Organization, Party, Room

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

Action, Facet, Facets, Federal, Government, Life

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Government, Liberty, Like, Watch, Watches

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Anger, Believe, Cold, Come, People, Sense

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

Action, Believe, Directly, Stem, Stems

In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

Archbishop, Home, King, Kings, Luther, Voice

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

Absolved, May, Reach, Responsibility, Solution, Trying

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

America, Congress, Hears, Joining, Organization

I would like to see. . . an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. . . . Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

Allocated, Common Sense, Country, Family, Instead, Thinking

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