A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one. Millicent Fenwick More Quotes by Millicent Fenwick More Quotes From Millicent Fenwick The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting. Millicent Fenwick illusion fascination jobs Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed. Millicent Fenwick politics doors rooms When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so. Millicent Fenwick couple men hands Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority. Millicent Fenwick lasting-change effort past There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action. Millicent Fenwick facets government action In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men? Millicent Fenwick men moving thinking In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home. Millicent Fenwick voice kings home Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles. Millicent Fenwick principles roots people The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes. Millicent Fenwick politics special people Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. Millicent Fenwick