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...Women bring to public policy a different experience in life and therefore a different set of priorities," Ireland said. "That's definitely a gross generalization, but we do tend to champion different issues...
...Ireland said that when asked if she will ever be satisfied with the success of feminism, she says, "Never. Not until 50 percent of the members of Congress are women...Just as we began the century by winning the vote; I want to end the century by taking real political power...
Asked what she thought of Powell as Commencement speaker, Ireland said, "It is important that we have a free flow of ideas with so polarized a society...We must respect him as an African-American man who has broken through barriers...
...Ireland derided the old-fashioned, "Pat Robertson version of feminism," which she said branded feminists as those who "leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians...
...That's quite an agenda," she quipped. Ireland said she spotted one of her favorite definitions on the back of a T-shirt at the University of Miami: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people...