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

 

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


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In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

Shirley Chisholm

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Shirley Chisholm

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

Shirley Chisholm

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

Shirley Chisholm

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Shirley Chisholm