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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

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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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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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Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administrations support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for societys most powerless. – Gary Bauer

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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or ones people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker

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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. – Edward Bond

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The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they werent very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves. – James Welch

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After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dads Army shirts, accessorised by a cats basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. – Jenny Eclair

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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side. – Isaac Hayes

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Red is passion-lit, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, pink is lipsensual, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy. – Terri Guillemets

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Crayons & Colors