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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

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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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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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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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Im coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called The Nethia. How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it. – NeNe Leakes

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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. – Aaron Allston

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legal

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. – Zach Wamp

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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals – legal or illegal – cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. – Salvatore J. Cordileone

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

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We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. – Marco Rubio

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The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006. – Doc Hastings

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