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Eleanor Smeal

"Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works."

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

Eleanor Smeal

#Determination Quotes #New York Quotes #Years Quotes

“Ten years ago when I started out I was kind of told I was insane for trying to pursue multiple fields at once because in five years everyone who just did one would have five times the resume I would if I was lucky, but I took that gamble because I just my gut told me it was the right thing to do and you know as an actor there is so much downtime you want to fill it with something else and as a writer you know sometimes you're doing a passion project, sometimes it's a paid gig, sometimes there is nothing, so you can do a journalistic piece.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.”
“I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.”
“To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.”
“A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
“I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.”

Source : "Color blind or color brave?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.
“People can put their best poems straight onto the web.”

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