Eleanor Rathbone Quotes
Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I'll say anything to live.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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If I am confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain consistency and continuity with the policies established during the Greenspan years.
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Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.
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Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.
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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.
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Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
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Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.
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My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.
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God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.
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I set some goals: little goals first and then the big ones. I stopped thinking about big achievements.
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Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
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How about having a properly equipped crash cart?
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Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.
