Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

I can't tell you how many 30-year-old dudes believe they should be senator or president. Women, we're like, 'Well, maybe after ten years of working...' No. Just run for the office you want to run for and run on the issue you want to fix.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Russia

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hand

• I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Right

• We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Girl

• I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Parents

• If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Myself

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Starting

• I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Together

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Women
  • Free
  • Fashion

• As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Women
  • Experience

• I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Work
  • Enough

• The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Process

• Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Universe

• The people that have looked out for me and helped to steer me in the right direction, I just can't thank them enough. So, the drive, a lot of times it just comes down to looking around at the people who love and believe in you and realizing that you owe it to them. Even if I have a bad attitude on a certain occasion, I owe it to all these people around me to just come out and drive, push, and try to make this thing the best that I can

  

  Cody Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

  

  John Muir
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Die

• Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Fire

• I can't tell you how many 30-year-old dudes believe they should be senator or president. Women, we're like, 'Well, maybe after ten years of working...' No. Just run for the office you want to run for and run on the issue you want to fix.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Believe
  • Women