Joyce Banda Quotes

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Joyce Banda

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Country

• I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Women
  • Golf
  • Tiger

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Time
  • Women
  • Employees

• It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • See
  • Innocent

• Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • Church

• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Women
  • Country
  • Think

• I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Culture

• The fact that a New Hampshire legislator's position is not seen as a career or a way of supporting a family has meant that it draws women. At times, I think men who might be looking for a paid career have known that they couldn't make one out of serving in the legislature. So there's a little more space for women.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Women
  • Culture

• Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Women
  • Done
  • Strong

• But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Down

• If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

  

  Alex Karpovsky
  • People
  • Future
  • Fate

• And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people its not, but for me its a choice, and you dont get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if its a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesnt matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

  

  Joyce Banda
  • Women
  • Country
  • Empowerment