血液流盡I have been active in politics for more than twenty years.
除了最后的那六年，其余那些年干活的是我，我干的是所有无聊琐碎但对竞选胜负至关重要的工作——可得到好处的却是男人，这几乎就是政界妇女一直以来的命运。
For all but the last six, I have done the work – all the tedious details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day – while men reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.
在美国政界，大部分的工作仍然是由妇女来做——大约300万志愿者。
It is still women – about three million volunteers – who do most of this work in the American political world.
她们中任何人所能期待的最好结果是有幸当选为区或县的副主席，这是一个隔离却平等的职位，是给那些多年来一直忠实从事装信封和组织牌局工作的妇女的奖赏。
The best any of them can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman, a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is rewarded for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party organizing.
在这种职位上，她可以享受公费出差去参加州或全国性的会议或代表大会，在这些场合她的作用就是和她单位的男主席投一样的票。
I n such a job, she gets a number of free trips to state and sometimes national meetings and conventions, where her role is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.
1963年，当我企图摆脱这一角色代表布鲁克林的贝德富锡—斯图维桑特参加竞选纽约州众议院的席位时，遇到了极大的阻力。
When I tried to break out of that role in 1963 and run for the New York State Assembly seat from Brooklyn‘s Bedford-Stuyvesant, the resistance was bitter.
从竞选一开始，我就要面对他们毫不掩饰的对女性的敌意。
From the start of that campaign, I faced undisguised hostility because of my sex.
但是在四年以后，当我竞选国会议员时，性别问题才成了一个主要争端。
But it was four years later, when I ran for Congress, that the question of my sex became a major issue.
我所在党派的党员召开秘密会议讨论如何阻止我参加竞选。
Among members of my own party, closed meetings were held to discuss ways of stopping me. 我的对手，著名的人权运动领袖詹姆士?法默竭力把自己塑造成一个具有男子汉气概的黑人形象；他坐着带有扩音器的卡车在附近地区巡回，车上满载着留着非洲发式、穿颜色花哨的宽袍和蓄胡子的年轻人。
My opponent, the famous civil-rights leader James Farmer, tried to project a black, masculine image; he toured the neighborhood with sound trucks filled with young men wearing Afro haircuts, dashikis, and beards.
电视台记者对我不屑一顾，他们忽略了一个非常重要的数据，而对此我和我的竞选经纪人韦斯利?麦克唐纳?霍尔德却很清楚。
While the television crews ignored me, they were not aware of a very important statistic, which both I and my campaign manager, Wesley MacD. Holder, knew.
在我这个区内，登记参加投票选举的人中男女的比例是1∶2.5。而且那些妇女是有组织的——是教师家长协会、教会社团、牌局俱乐部以及其他社会服务性团体的成员。我去找她们寻求帮助。
n my district there are 2.5 women for every man registered to vote. And those women are organized – in PTAs, church societies, card clubs, and other social and service groups I went to
