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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

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

Category:
Equality
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Shirley Chisholm
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Other Quotes from
Society
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Everything in our society is so purposeful. – Sara Blakely

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Society

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Society

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if – to quote Professor Higgins – a woman could be more like a man. – Julie Burchill

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Society

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke

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Society

Random Quotes

Honestly, I dont listen to nobody elses music but my own. Its kind of like sports to me. You dont see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And thats what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things. – Lil Wayne

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Music

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Huxley

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work

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail. – Mike Huckabee

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Politics

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. – Horace, quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern,

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Poetry