You're a very strong woman... Though this would be a traumatic experience
that you would never forget, I think that you would be very successful in
life.
-- Senator Dan Quayle telling an 11-year-old girl
why he would want her to have the baby if she were raped by
her father, 10/18/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
that you would never forget, I think that you would be very successful in
life.
-- Senator Dan Quayle telling an 11-year-old girl
why he would want her to have the baby if she were raped by
her father, 10/18/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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