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

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

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

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.