Eleanor Rathbone Quotes
The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.Eleanor Rathbone
Quotes to Explore
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch -
There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
Marat Safin -
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie -
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
Adam Grant -
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
Sally Ride -
I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Nancy O'Dell -
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.
Kara DioGuardi -
Being engaged is absolutely a time to cherish!
Camila Alves -
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.
Patricia Briggs -
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.
Rachel Cusk -
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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.
Prince -
To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
Agatha Christie -
It becomes very tempting to ask whether, in principle, it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory-or a universe in your backyard-by man-made processes.
Alan Guth
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Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Frank Gehry -
For me, personally, I didn't see many people like me on TV growing up.
Pearl Mackie -
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
Alexandre Dumas -
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
Kerry Washington -
The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
Eleanor Rathbone