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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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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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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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
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If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that.
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I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.
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I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
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'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'
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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.
