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I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

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As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

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When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

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I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

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I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

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Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: July 24th, 1920

Died: March 31st, 1998

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