Quote by Shirley Chisholm
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because

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

Other quotes by Shirley Chisholm

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

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Politics
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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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Equality
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Society

The trouble is its very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. – Emma Thompson

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Society

So if we have anything original to offer, its to speak from our own life about the society were in. – Sean Penn

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Society

Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period. – Terri Guillemets

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Society

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