"These women voters have awakened and they expect their views to be properly represented. Women have always been able to bring sound and humane reasoning into everyday life. I believe they are the hope of the country."

"Champion of the underprivileged"

"I don’t expect much opposition because I am a woman. I haven’t found that too difficult a ‘handicap’ to overcome."

"I have found sex a greater handicap than ever."

"She gave wise counsel, guidance and defense to those continuing to be caught in the confusing maze of the system."

"I do not feel that I am going to set the world on fire, but I feel that there is a place for some practical work to be done."

"My opponents have not committed themselves to any specific platform – my position has (been) entirely clear."

"Whoever is misinterpreting my remarks must be more interested in my opponent than in organized labor."

"My opponent has never been quoted on a platform; his campaign is solely based on the fact he has been in public office for forty years."

"Blair was a local pioneer who broke new ground for women and people with disabilities in Texas. She was a fighter who did not back down and was willing to stand for causes she felt were important. Blair was ahead of her time."

"Her victory made national headlines; even Time magazine did an article about her victory."

"We cannot rob our institutions of learning of their ability to get facts. The truth is our greatest weapon against communism."

"She has the understanding of working man’s problems through earning her own living despite handicap of blindness."

"I resent that some people do not want to listen to the truth. I will run on my record . . . I have never waited to see how a vote was going to go and then vote in the house with the crowd."

"As mayor, June enjoyed many lighter moments, as well."

"It just takes one person to break barriers that will forever alter ‘business as usual’ and open the door for others to follow. In terms of female leadership in Norman, that one person was Mayor June Benson."

"Beebe’s service on numerous state and national commissions reflected her devotion to improving the lives of all Americans; her concerns and interests ranged from the women’s movement to mental health, from minority advancement to penal reform. She served as a role model for an entire generation of Michigan women."

"My whole position on the issue has been distorted and cruelly twisted."

"I alone was singled out on the issue even though there were many male senators who supported my stand."

"In the campaign in my district, I was called a murderer and a person who wanted to kill babies."

"I believe in their hearts, women are seeking some form of liberation."

"I believe more than ever the decision to have ab abortion is a personal one."

"A couple of days a month, I would - when I was 14, when I was 15, when I was 16, I went to the studio, and they would show me storyboards. And they had very crude - they were 16 mm, very hot lights so that everything stood out very strongly, you know, almost in silhouette sometimes, especially when Snow White was running through the forest or doing anything of that nature. And I made it up. You know, it was almost like extended play for me."

"I'm a liberal."

"My wife, Mary Lou Baker is an excellent housewife, an able lawyer and legislator. She possesses great beauty, poise, charm and friendliness."

"The first day I met her, I was struck by her warmth and her energy."

"Not only did Mary Bain save national treasures, she is a national treasure."

"She was the smartest political mind I've ever known."

"She and Yates were a team in every sense of the word"

"Mary was a hero, not just to me, but to legions of other young Chicagoans and politicos, whom she also charmed and mentored."

"She hated phoniness and pompousness, and that came through immediately."

"God, she was funny and full of fight."

"The purpose of a name is to designate an individual, and to distinguish that individual from others. I received my law degree and my certificate to practice as Mary Lou Baker. … It might even be considered unsportsmanlike for me to use the name of my husband upon the ballot and thereby borrow from the goodwill established by the name of Capt. Searle H. Matthews."

"Moreover, Andrews’s name recognition and powerful supporters added to the long-term historical trends that favoured her candidacy."

"Failure to maintain order for all presidential candidates during their public appearances has resulted in an ominous atmosphere of tension, hostility, and clear danger."

"All Americans, regardless of philosophy or party affiliation, should be dismayed at this vicious assault on a man who dared to go out among the people in his quest for support in a presidential campaign."

"Womanhood per se was never an issue."

"She was respected as a person who continually shared her knowledge and wisdom of the Chamorro language, culture and traditions about the people of Guam."

"Even more importantly, she helped instil in those who knew her a deep sense of honour and respect for one another."

"Don't be afraid."

"Senedu’s ascent to Parliament can rightly be considered one of her more extraordinary accomplishments."

"That's why they imprison our husbands, our brothers, and our sons; that's why they impose themselves on us in such a brutal manner."

"She may not have been Ethiopia’s first feminist in a sense but she certainly gave voice to the women of Ethiopia like they had never had before."

"Throughout most of her life, Senedu had always been an avid reader."

"Any one who has ever asked Nita for the telephone number or address of one of her friends soon looks on in amazement at the address book which she produces."

"My sisters from the Bété, Bao Ulé, and Dioula people and everywhere, fear not! It’s not because they attack us and shoot water with sand that we should feel discouraged, because when someone goes to the rescue of their spouse, their brother, their son, they will not back down in face of so little,"

"As one journalist put it: she was a woman "for all people and the people's governor-general."

"A Woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience."