Hard cases make bad laws ... We have decided not to work with these disreputable right-wing organizations and individuals advancing [Jones'] cause. -Patricia Ireland

 

Hard cases make bad laws ... We have decided not to work with these disreputable right-wing organizations and individuals advancing [Jones'] cause.


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Hard cases make bad laws ... We have decided not to work with these disreputable right-wing organizations and individuals advancing [Jones'] cause.

Patricia Ireland
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Now we are talking about real sexual predators, and we are now talking about people in power using that power to take advantage of women.

Patricia Ireland
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When they say men should take responsibility, they really mean men should take control ... that men should be heads and masters of their families, and women should take a back seat. That is a very bad message as far as I am concerned. -Patricia Ireland
139

One of the things [NOW members] look for whenthey're looking for [work] is jobs where they're going toget better skills on computers, ... That's ahigher value, especially for the young women, than theimmediate pay they're going to be getting. We hear itwith great regularity.

Patricia Ireland
102

This is not just sexual harassment, if it's true. It's sexual assault, ... Late Edition.

Patricia Ireland
94
We do not intend to encourage higher courts to consider and possibly create legal precedent that would injure everyday women in the workplace, based on the allegations and evidence of a politically charged case. -Patricia Ireland
63

[Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women, also on the ground at Kennedy Space Center, sighed when I asked her about the convergence of the two events.] It has the potential to diminish the excitement ... And, at the same time, it reminds us that progress must go on. That it is bigger than any one connection to the past.

Patricia Ireland
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