Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.