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Famous Quotes By Lilly Ledbetter

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In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged. — Lilly Ledbetter

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I sometimes worried I'd never experience that sense of wonder you feel meeting a new friend or traveling to a new place for the first time. I was afraid the major milestones of my life, marriage and childbirth, were past. Was it foolish to hope I still had something exciting ahead of me, something even important, that I could have a life of my own? — Lilly Ledbetter

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I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference. — Lilly Ledbetter

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There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard. — Lilly Ledbetter

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The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.' — Lilly Ledbetter

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Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. — Lilly Ledbetter

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The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades. — Lilly Ledbetter

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Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account. — Lilly Ledbetter

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Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. — Lilly Ledbetter

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We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman. — Lilly Ledbetter

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Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars. — Lilly Ledbetter