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I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

Patricia Schroeder

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Patricia Schroeder
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 30
Lawyer
Leader
Politician
Teacher
Portland
Oregon
Patricia Nell Schroeder
Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder
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I always preferred having wings to having things.
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Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.
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If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.
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The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
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Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was running as a woman.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that
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The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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