Mary Robinson Quotes:
Ocupation: Former President of Ireland
Life: b. May 21, 1944
Birthday: May 21
I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.
source: Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za
topic: Struggle, Party, Government, Struggle For Freedom
