Quote by Patricia Ireland
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal sy

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the 70s and 80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. – Patricia Ireland

Other quotes by Patricia Ireland

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. – Patricia Ireland

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Equality
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream. – Patricia Ireland

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positive
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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that were not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. – Patricia Ireland

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alone
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legal
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I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it. – Amber Frey

Category:
legal

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. – Warren Farrell

Category:
legal

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system – we will have something without heart. – Lee Greenwood

Category:
legal

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administrations current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government. – Roger Wicker

Category:
legal

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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke

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Home

Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. – Proverb

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Goodness

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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