It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. – Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: Its a girl. – Shirley Chisholm
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me. – Edie Brickell