Shirley Chisholm Quotes & Sayings

11 most famous Shirley Chisholm quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was an American politician who passed away on 1 January, 2005.

“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.”

“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.”

“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”

“Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”

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

“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.”

“There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.”