Estelle Ramey Quotes
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
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Even allegedly gender-neutral words like 'sexist' imply slights only against women.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.
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Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.
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I think women's wrestling has had a hard time because of GLOW. When GLOW came out, it looked like somebody was ripping off the male industry. Everybody made fun of it. WOW is a great product. It's produced right. It's got a little story line, and it's got good-looking girls who can work and can talk.
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
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Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.
