Best quotes by Ginny Brown-Waite on Women

Checkout quotes by Ginny Brown-Waite on Women

• ‟ No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

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• ‟ While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

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• ‟ We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

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• ‟ As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

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• ‟ When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

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• ‟ First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

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• ‟ I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.

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• ‟ In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

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• ‟ While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

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• ‟ The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

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• ‟ On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

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