Quote by Shirley Chisholm
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the ne

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

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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: Its a girl. – Shirley Chisholm

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

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In this country, dont forget, a habit is no damn private hell. Theres no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country its the worst kind of hell for those who love you. – Billie Holiday

Treating mental illness saves all of us money. Take addiction. We heard testimony that for every dollar spent on addiction treatment, we save $7. That – Kathleen Vinehout

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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