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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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
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As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.
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If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.
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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
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The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
