Kim Gandy
Kim Gandy
Kim Gandyis an American feminist who from 2001 to 2009 was the president of the National Organization for Women. She has been president and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence since 2012. In 2009, Gandy was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From January 2010 to October 2012 she was vice president and general counsel at the Feminist Majority Foundation in...
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We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.
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Every answer he gives he gives himself a little out. It's frustrating to me as a lawyer to not be able to say, 'Your Honor, instruct the witness to answer the question.' I've thought several times there is a follow-up question I would ask if I were up there.
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Betty led NOW when we were challenging every orthodoxy about what it means to be a woman.
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Those who lose their rights and liberties in the future, because of Roberts' leadership on the Court, will remember the senators who voted to confirm.
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I'm shocked that there are some people who don't look more deeply at the words,
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From the Bush administration's attacks on women's rights to preparing for a vacancy on the Supreme Court, NOW activists have our hands full protecting the advances we've made together over the past decades and moving forward on women's rights,
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Many of us think of her as one of the mothers of the modern women's movement. She played a very pivotal, very critical role in launching the second wave of the modern women's movement.
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She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us.
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She was so well-known in the civil rights community and so well-respected that it made a huge difference, ... She had lived through what compromises bring you, and she was very determined that women's lives were not to be compromised.
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Most studies submitted to the FDA have been conducted by the manufacturers of implants who obviously have a vested interested and whose findings are frequently biased and misleading. We must reform this heavy reliance on industry, which interferes with sound scientific decision-making by the FDA.
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None of these are easy questions. But most courts say it's not about what he did or didn't do or what she did or didn't do. It's about the rights of the child.
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If Bush chooses a nominee whose only intention is to scale back the rights we have fought decades to win, we are prepared for a battle royal. Bring it on.
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There is no job that women should be excluded from because of their gender. If you can do the job, you should have an opportunity to get the job. If you can't, you shouldn't be there, male or female.
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Women in the South who are feminists, who stand up for women's rights and who speak out on things that aren't fair, are some of the strongest and most amazing women I've ever met,