Carolyn Maloney Quotes

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

An Act to Relieve the Legal Disabilities of Women

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Women must enjoy equal rights with men. The remaining shackles that hamper their freedom must be removed so that they can participate constructively and profoundly in shaping the life of the country.

Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men in the exercise of suffrage ... and in all other respects.

Women have not had their rights come easily.

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

I thought that we would wake up this morning and have the same rights as our husbands, grandsons and garbage men—but we are still begging to be let into our country's Constitution.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.