Teresa Heinz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Country #Men #People
I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.
-- Teresa Heinz

#East #Grew #Grew Up
I learned something then, and I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anyone may be noticing and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't more required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America, the true patriots are those who dare speak truth to power.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Lonely #Believe #Land
There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.
-- Teresa Heinz

#May #Values #Noticing
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Roots #Bird #Tree
John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Girl #Boys #Oil
You can call me Mama T anytime.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Mama #Call Me
I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Views #Abortion #Stopping
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Intellectual #Together #Glue
My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. My only hope is that, one day soon, women who have all earned the right to their opinions -- instead of being called 'opinionated' will be called smart and well-informed, just like men.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Smart #Men #Voice
Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Clothes #Water #Generator
When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Hurt #Thinking #Let It Go
I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Surprise
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Weight #Johannesburg #Young

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