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Top 25 Patricia Ireland Quotes (2025 Update)

Patricia Ireland Quote: “I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.”

1. “I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”

2. “I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?”

3. “When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.”

4. “In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.”

5. “I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.”

6. “When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.”

7. “And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.”

8. “Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we’re not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.”

9. “Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we’re not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim’s advocate’s statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it’s far too many.”

10. “The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim’s advocate’s statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it’s far too many.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.”

11. “Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.”

— Patricia Ireland

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Patricia Ireland Quote: “The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won’t tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.”

12. “The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won’t tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “The Young Women’s Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it’s been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.”

13. “The Young Women’s Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it’s been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.”

14. “Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.”

15. “Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we’re not going to change their minds.”

16. “Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we’re not going to change their minds.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O’Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.”

17. “I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O’Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him.”

18. “All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him.”

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Patricia Ireland Quote: “Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women’s lives in our entirety.”

19. “Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women’s lives in our entirety.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it’s a public and political problem. It’s a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.”

20. “We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it’s a public and political problem. It’s a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.”

21. “The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.”

22. “I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.”

23. “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women’s and children’s empowerment and ending racism.”

24. “My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women’s and children’s empowerment and ending racism.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.”

25. “There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.”

26. “More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.”

27. “I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Most of us see Justice O’Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.”

28. “Most of us see Justice O’Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.”

— Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland Quote: “Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”

29. “Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”

— Patricia Ireland

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