| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32418 |
| QUOTATION: | I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Quoted in Bill Adler, “The Presidency,” The Wit of President Kennedy (1964).
To a group of women delegates to the United Nations who had suggested that there might one day be a woman President. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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