Catherine Ashton Quotes
I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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I am proud of being a Somali-American Muslim, and my wardrobe has been an important part of my religious and cultural upbringing.
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The one thing women love more than money is power.
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Make no mistake: Restoring our economy is very much a women's issue.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.
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Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
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Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.
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I have to consider everything I eat; I consider every activity I do.
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I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.
