Lilly Ledbetter Quotes

#1. Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.

Kitty Kelley

#2. [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Barbara Mikulski

#3. If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we're probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

Lilly Ledbetter

#5. Psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Jean Baker Miller

#6. Insecurity is love dressed in a child's clothing.

Kofi Annan

#7. One tiny stain on a woman's reputation was as bad as a lifetime of debauchery.

Elizabeth Charles

#8. Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#9. And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Charles Dickens

#10. So familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.

Jodi Picoult

#11. I woke with sweat beading across my forehead and my hands balled into fists clutching the sheet over my eyes. The dreams. They were back. Haunting me relentlessly. I thought they were gone ... I should've known better. (Rayne)

Kimberly Brockman

#12. Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Tony Blair

#13. Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

Lilly Ledbetter

#14. There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.

Lilly Ledbetter

#15. I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

Martha Stewart

#16. Speak your mind. No one else will.

Paul McElligott

#17. I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

Lilly Ledbetter

#18. Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

Kedar Joshi

#19. If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

A.A. Milne

#20. When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

Rick Wakeman

#21. We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

Lilly Ledbetter

#22. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#23. The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

Lilly Ledbetter