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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When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
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How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?
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The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.
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The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
