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

Other quotes by Shirley Chisholm

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

Category:
Society
Read Quote

At present, our country needs womens idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. – Shirley Chisholm

Category:
Politics
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
category

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground. – Anon.

Random Quotes

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. – Richard M. DeVos

Category:
Money

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And thats what were going to do as a party and thats what Mitt Romney will do on day one. – Reince Priebus

Category:
Health

Once you stop rushing through life, you will be amazed how much more life you have time for. – Author Unknown

Category:
Haste

I dont think its a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chefs a fat pig. – Gordon Ramsay

Category:
good