“Carolyn Maloney is very, very comfortable with a whole host of issues, but on women's issues, she is really just one of the few people who understands that women are not only half of the world and half of the United States, but they need an advocate; that they have to have advocacy; that our issues cannot be ignored.” PeopleWorldNeedsStatesWholeUnitedHalfUnited StatesIssuesComfortableJust OneHostIgnoredAdvocacy Author:Eleanor Smeal
“We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world.” WorldStillsTwoSometimesStatesDoneJobsNationsAreasCongressErasHandfulTwo Jobs Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Carolyn Maloney identifies with the possibility of being raped, that's why she hung in there for the Debbie Smith Bill. So it - it's essential that in New York, if we can't get a prominent woman in New York, where can we? I mean there's so many states that have never even had a woman senator. We're still on our first this and our first that.” IfsFirstsMeanStillsStatesNew YorkPossibilityEssentialsBillsHungSenatorsProminent Author:Eleanor Smeal
“The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.” IfsWorldStatesSpeakUnitedUnited StatesProgramThirdsPlanningAbortionReceivingFundingThird WorldGagsFamily Planning Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.” FeelsStatesWould BeUnitedUnited StatesChangedProgramPatientPlanningClientsClinicUnethicalFamily Planning Author:Eleanor Smeal
“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.” ImportantCountryStatesHouseLosesBehindsRightsInvolvedGainsOur CountrySeatsRepresentativesWomens RightsLackingLegislatureHouse Of RepresentativesState LegislaturesRedistricting Author:Eleanor Smeal
“We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously.” PeopleMenWellsMeanStatesLevelsIssuesTakenHigherTablesRidiculousBehaveRepresentationGetting HighProminence Author:Eleanor Smeal
“In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.” TryingMeanStatesEnoughHappensNationsFeetNew YorkUnionsLawyerSensitiveSquaresGovernorsShockingOutrage Author:Eleanor Smeal
