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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'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?
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Paying attention is not just analyzing carefully; rather, it is a constructive act... What we build has only the dimensions we have given it.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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All morning, I did nothing but repeat: 'Man is an abyss, man is an abyss.' - I could not, alas, find anything better.
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When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
