"More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces."

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Source : "Why I Want My Daughters — and Son — to Read Lean In" by Nancy Birdsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

Nancy Birdsall

#Speaking Up Quotes #Culture Quotes #World Quotes

“To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.”

Source : "Chew the Right Thing". Chew the Right Thing, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.
“The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our own hands.”
“Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.”
“It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.”
“I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.”
“Every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life, each time an individual chooses a new option, that person then becomes a living bridge for all the others who choose to follow in that person's path.”
“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”
“To oppose something is to maintain it.”

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