“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.”

Quoted in Bill Adler, "The Presidency," The Wit of President Kennedy (1964).

[JFK was speaking]...To a group of women delegates to the United Nations who had suggested that there might one day be a woman President.
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