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You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

Geraldine Ferraro

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Geraldine Ferraro
Age: 75 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 26
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Attorney
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Newburgh
New York
Geraldine Anne Ferraro
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Congress
Female
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I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
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politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
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Some leaders are born women.
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Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!
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Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
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Modern life is confusing no Ms take about it.
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The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
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