Eleanor Rathbone Quotes
The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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Being engaged is absolutely a time to cherish!
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov -
Put not your trust in princes.
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What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the critics are not friends at all - and that's good for me as an entertainer because I want to grow. It also gives me the structure of remaining in one city so I can get creative in different ways.
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America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.
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There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.
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One of many strengths that I often see in successful women on Wall Street is a responsible balance between risk taking and risk mitigation - the ability to assess situations smartly and make the right medium-to-long-term decisions without being lured into reckless, short-term profit-taking.
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No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.
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The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
