"The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination."

-- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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“Choosing to leave the lesbian life brings us into direct conflict with the satanic realm.”

Source : "Out of Egypt: One Woman's Journey Out of Lesbianism". Book by Jeanette Howard, 2000.
“I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.”
“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
“One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.
“One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.”
“That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.”
“There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.”
“People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.”

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