I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick.Those days are over.
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.
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.
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Live and Let Live Meat Market.
All of the men on my staff can type.
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
I'm a politician.I run for office. That's my profession.