"One of the greatest mistakes the international community can make is to say, "Well, we will get other matters figured out and stabilized, and then we'll think about the women's rights, because that's really a grade-B kind of concern.""

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Swanee Hunt

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Community Quotes

“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”
“First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.”
“Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?”
“I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.”
“I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.”
“People probably assume I sleep in my uniform. Then I get up and go to the mall or the market in my uniform.”
“Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
“The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.”

Source : "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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