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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I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.
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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 -
If I go on to the pitch, do things well and the fans love me and my team-mates, too, we take on that energy which can change a game.
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Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
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I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
