Pat Schroeder contributed to The Denver Post with guest commentaries for more than 20 years. Here are some favorite excerpts from her writings and her conversations.
When people insinuate that sexism is a thing of the past, I say they need to take off the blinders and take a hard look at what has occurred on the campaign trail this year. Gender is still one of the most restricting forces in our nation today, in the political arena and in our daily lives. Sen. Clinton has come closer than any other woman in history to finally tearing off the “No Girls Allowed” sign on the White House. Yet no action on her part could stop her detractors.
I was elected to Congress in the wake of Watergate. That assault on Democracy by President Richard Nixon and his henchmen now looks like a middle school lunchroom fight compared to what we are now living through. Differences worked for us, or rather we found a way to make them work for us. Our basic instinct for curiosity about the other led to conflict, but the conflicts were functional, rooted in an impulse to find solutions, to reach for common ground.We have two ears and one mouth, and yet we talk way more than we listen. No wonder we can’t hear our common humanity.Regarding campaign reform, from a Feb.
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