Eleanor Smeal famous quotes

03-28-2025

We have got to have more providers to replace those who are leaving ...
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Abortion #Leaving
Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Gun #Thinking #Amendments
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistanâ€™s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Girl #Teacher #School
There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Fighting #Rights #People
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.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Feminist #Feminism #Sense Of Humor
I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Political #Gaps #Firsts
Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Girl #Fighting #Support
Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Military #War #Decision
[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Needs #Want
We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Military #Blow #Goes On
We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Jobs #Two #Done
Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Fighting #Dna #Issues
We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Country #Reality #Thinking
We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Unique #Thinking #Rights
In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#New York #Mean #Squares
Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought that Senator [Hillary] Clinton had occupied such a neat and unique role, certainly a worldwide advocate for women, and also there's also only 16 women without her in Congress.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Unique #Special #Needs
I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Gender Gap #Political #Gaps
Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#United States #Would Be #Clients
I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Mean #Fighting #Men
Carolyn Maloney identifies with the possibility of being raped, that's why she hung in there for the Debbie Smith Bill. So it - it's essential that in New York, if we can't get a prominent woman in New York, where can we? I mean there's so many states that have never even had a woman senator. We're still on our first this and our first that.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#New York #Mean #Essentials
I think that we're just fortunate that you have an experienced legislator: 26 years of fighting for our issues in line. I mean, there's nobody, there's no man, nor woman that is being mentioned that has the legislative experience that she has and the passion in her heart for advancing the cause of women.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Passion #Heart #Mean
One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated is that some people think we have made it when we have not and there's much to be done.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Book #Thinking #People
As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Children #Men #Issues
We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we're hoping that there's far - there will be many more women in the cabinet. It appears there will be and we're hoping that will happen. And - but the ones that have been picked, by and large, we have worked with. There's a couple that we haven't, but there - they look like their bio's are great and so we're - we're pushing on.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Couple #Numbers #Looks
I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Men #Branches #Might
Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Unique #Quality #Majority
I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Class #People #Males
Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Determination #New York #Years

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