Patricia Ireland Quotes

• I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Thinking, Optimism, Being Positive

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• Quiero organizarnos para que las mujeres nos veamos como personas con derecho al poder, con derecho al liderazgo.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Equality, Sisterhood, People

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• All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

  Patricia Irlanda

  Stupid, Humorous, Snakes

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• the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Party, Two, Evil

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• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Men, Mind, Faces

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• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  Patricia Irlanda

  Children, Men, Discipline

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• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

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  Girl, Racism, Empowerment

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• Las azafatas siguen cobrando tan poco que, en muchos casos, las nuevas contratadas tienen derecho a vales de comida.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Equality, Littles, Food Stamps

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• We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Home, Political, Violence

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• La Ley contra la Violencia de Género es muy importante. Proporciona dinero para formar a los policías de patrulla, para formar a los jueces en el sentido de que hoy es un nuevo día, que no toleraremos esta violencia y que sabremos cómo enfrentarnos a ella.

  Patricia Irlanda

  New Day, Judging, Important

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• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Numbers, Statistics, Blame

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• Más de 10.000 papeletas del condado de Miami-Dade han sido rechazadas por alguna máquina sin que un ser humano haya tenido la oportunidad de echarles un vistazo. Eso no está bien.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Opportunity, Miami, Looks

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• My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Children, Racism, Decision

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• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Florida, Issues, African American

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• Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

  Patricia Irlanda

  Sex, Issues, Fairness

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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.

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  Dream, Moving, Vision

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• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

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  Christian, Giving, Belief

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• Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

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  Strong, Powerful, Fighting

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Running, House, President

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• Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Mean, Advice, Rubber

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• Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Jobs, Here I Am, People

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• La violencia puede ser un buen foco en torno al cual organizarse, pero tenemos que contemplar la vida de las mujeres en su totalidad.

  Patricia Irlanda

  Focus, Looks, May

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• The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.

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  Christian, Roots, Years

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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 we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

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  Home, Reality, May

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• Cuando empecé la carrera de Derecho me sorprendió saber que nuestro sistema jurídico tradicionalmente consideraba al hombre como cabeza y señor de la familia. Todavía en los años 70 y 80, cuando luchábamos por la Enmienda de Igualdad de Derechos, estados como Luisiana seguían teniendo una ley de cabeza y señor.

  Patricia Irlanda

  School, Fighting, Men

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