Kim Gandy Quotations

We know what's at stake and we won't go back.

We know from Wood's experience that it's not a very welcome atmosphere for women's rights advocacy at the agency.

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.

She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

He got the message loud and clear, didn't he?

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.

He's a very smart lawyer and he's giving legalistic answers that are probably accurate. He doesn't want to lie. But he's giving answers that under some legal analysis do tip his hand, and it's very bad news for women.

I thought, you know, this doesn't look right, ... And I got involved in NOW. I saw them talking about this very law, which was called the Head and Master law, and the next seven years getting rid of it.

It is an outrage and an insult to the women of this country that George W. Bush has nominated such a jurist to be chief justice of the United States,

That book changed women's lives. It opened women's minds to the idea that there actually might be something more. And for the women who secretly harbored such unpopular thoughts, it told them that there were other women out there like them who thought there might be something more to life.

I'm shocked that there are some people who don't look more deeply at the words,

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,

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.

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.

Betty led NOW when we were challenging every orthodoxy about what it means to be a woman.

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.

an outrage and an insult to the women of this country.

This is not just about South Dakota. Women's rights, women's health and women's lives are on the line.

A lot of strong women there. But sometimes it is a tough place to make progress on our issues.

not only upset the delicate balance on this Supreme Court, but also extend his right-wing ideology and disregard for individual rights to the third branch of government -- the judiciary.

At this time, with the country's leadership in turmoil and confidence in the government steadily declining, now more than ever we need stability.

The message we delivered was that he needs to distinguish himself from Gov. Bush,

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services -- and there aren't alternatives.

I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.

Women don't even have equal treatment when it comes to filing a lawsuit for discrimination,

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.