"Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to represent these overlooked areas."

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Source : Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

Eva Cox

#Leadership Quotes #Children Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.”
“We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.”
“Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”
“When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.”
“Consumers all over the world will be able to flip open their phones and see their favorite Warner Music videos.”
“The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.”
“The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.”
“I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.”

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