But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

  • -- Edith Nourse Rogers 伊迪丝·诺斯·罗杰斯

但我并没有说过,也没有说过,女性立法者应该把自己限制在只做社会服务工作的范围内。不客气。

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We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.

我们不讨论作为个体的人的解剖、生理和心理特征;但我们感兴趣的是,在不同地理区域和不同社会阶层的男性群体中,这些特征的多样性。

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

没有一个社会能够消除人类的悲伤,没有一个政治制度能够把我们从生活的痛苦、对死亡的恐惧和对绝对的渴望中解救出来。是人的条件决定了社会的条件,而不是社会条件决定人的条件。

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

即使社会要求男人和女人应该有特定的行为方式,也正是父母们不仅在孩子们说的话中,而且在他们的生活中,把这些方式教给孩子们。

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

作为一名立法者,我看到了我可以通过透明、张贴和解释我所有的投票变得多么有效。

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

当一个女人成为她自己最好的朋友时,生活就容易多了。