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Corazon Aquino

"I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people."

Source : "Sunday Interview -- Corazon Aquino/ The former president of the Philippines reflects on losing a husband to the cause they believed in, the revolution that later swept her to power and the difficulties of ruling in a democracy". Interview With Benjamin Pimentel, www.sfgate.com. February 18, 1996.

Corazon Aquino

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“What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.”

Source : "Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke" by Jay Walljasper, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1996.
“I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen ... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.”
“Please donâ€™t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
“Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.”
“A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.”
“[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.”
“I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.”
“Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a couple of months.”

"I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people."

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