Equal Rights Amendment Quotes

#1. I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.

Joan Hackett

#2. I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.

Sonia Johnson

#3. I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

Betty Ford

#4. When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Patricia Ireland

#5. A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment
with its redefinition of personhood
is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.

Charles Stross

#6. We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

Bernie Sanders

#7. The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?

Jane Fonda

#9. My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

Rosalynn Carter

#10. The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

William Rehnquist

#11. A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.

Thomm Quackenbush

#12. The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper

#13. Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers.

Jonathan Yardley

#14. That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.

Kirk Cameron

#15. Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

William Empson

#16. Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they're capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they're capable of so much less.

Amethyst Marie

#17. I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

George Shearing

#18. History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

Michael K. Simpson

#19. I've been working since I was 18. People say something every time I cut my hair. They wouldn't say this to Dustin Hoffman.

Carole Bouquet

#20. I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

Mary Gaitskill

#21. I am a 5'1 petite female. My pistol is my equalizer.

Gina Loudon

#22. Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly "free" state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

Tiffany Madison

#23. Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

Gore Vidal

#24. The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

Barack Obama