"We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world."

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

Eleanor Smeal

#Jobs Quotes #Two Quotes #Done Quotes

“I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It is full of beauty, romance and tradition, but also power, schemes and bribery. It's Italy in a nutshell, with all its incredible mixture of beauty and betrayal.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf.”

Source : Stuart Wilde (1988). “Affirmations”
“Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.”
“In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.”
“Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.”

Source : Gerald Kersh (1945). “Sergeant Nelson of the Guards”, J.C. Winston Company
“I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.”

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