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
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm
At present, our country needs womens idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. – Shirley Chisholm
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. – Shirley Chisholm
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. – William S. Burroughs