"The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them."

-- Andrea Jung

#Women Quotes #Home Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.”
“I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.”
“I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.”
“I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.”

Source : "Ars interviews Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon". Interview with John Timmer, arstechnica.com. July 30, 2015.
“We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.”

Source : "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 2009.
“I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.”
“Ray Charles revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.”
“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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