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Patricia Ireland (born October 19, 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a U.S. administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996.

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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

Battles, Fighting, Networks, Powerful, Strong, Win

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Focus, Good, Looks, May, Violence

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Equality, Food Stamps, Hires, Littles, Qualify, Stewardesses

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Home, Political, Lines, Homes, Places

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Fighting, Man, Men, School, System, Traditionally

Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

Minutes, Six, Three, Too Much

the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

Choice, Evil, Lessers, Parties, Party, Two

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

Base, Building, Goal, Roots, Winning

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

Advice, Doe, Mean, Rubber

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

African American, Americans, Florida, Issues, Personal

The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.

Beliefs, Christian, Places, Roots, Years

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Agreement, Icon, Icons, Justice, See

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

Doors, Hard, Organized, People, Phones, Worked

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Discipline, Law, Men, Said, Wife

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Blame, Blaming, Irrespective, Numbers, Opposition, Statistics

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Campaigns, Chances, Grounds, Principle, Principles, Winning

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

Against, Dream, Moving, Vision, Women

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

Court, Day, House, President, Running, Sense

All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

Humorous, Snake, Snakes, Stupid, Voted

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Equality, Leadership, People, See, Sisterhood

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