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.
