Wilma Mankiller Quotes
Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
Quotes to Explore
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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I love anything to do with history.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you gave a pretty good performance or crappy if you didn't. But in TV and film, you actually have to experience it while you're doing it, and then you have to watch it. And then when you're watching it, you watch it with a different sensibility than how you experienced it.
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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
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The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.
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Same-sex marriage confuses the balance that God created when he created male and female. He created a balance, where both sides would bring something to the table that would reflect the uniqueness of the creation. There is no reflection of the uniqueness of creation in same-sex marriage.
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
