"To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition."

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Source : "In Politics, What Works For A Man Still Does Not Work For A Woman" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#Mean Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.”
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
“I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.”
“I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.”
“The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.”
“One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.”

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