Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.

Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.