"My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism."

-- Patricia Ireland

#Children Quotes #Racism Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.”
“I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.”
“Beauty is an opinion not a fact”

Source : "Hayden Panettiere: I Struggled With Body Dysmorphia as a Teen" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. September 16, 2012.
“Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.”
“I married a damned cereal killer”
“I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.”

Source : Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. December 15, 1960.
“In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.”
“I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.”

Source : "Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan talks about making comics his own way". Interview with Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. April 11, 2012.

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