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“[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower — he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.'”
- Marguerite Rawalt,
- 1960, in Judith Paterson, Be Somebody: A Biography of Marguerite Rawalt (1986)
“The world needs scientists, engineers — and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.”
- Marguerite Rawalt,
- in Judith Paterson, Be Somebody: A Biography of Marguerite Rawalt (1986)
“It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.”
- Marguerite Rawalt,
- on the ERA, in Judith Paterson, Be Somebody: A Biography of Marguerite Rawalt (1986)
“It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society.”
- Marguerite Rawalt,
- in Judith Paterson, Be Somebody: A Biography of Marguerite Rawalt (1986)

(1895 - 1989)