Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwickwas an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm. She was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement. She was considered the inspiration behind Lacey Davenport, a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 February 1910
CityNew York City, NY
Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.
A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
What we do stems directly from what we believe.
We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.
Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.
Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.
I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.