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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

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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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Shirley Chisholm
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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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Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
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Shirley Chisholm
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I dont think we live in a particularly equal society. – Sienna Miller

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Society

The idea is, were still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political. – Peter Guber

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Society

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. – Lucy Powell

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Society

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm

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Society

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