Quotes
Authors
Helene D. Gayle

"No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community."

Source : "Helene Gayle, President and CEO of CARE USA, on Empowering Women and Girls Worldwide". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 07, 2011.

Helene D. Gayle

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“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form”
“For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.”

Source : "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.
“Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.”
“Life is not lost -dying; life is lost minute -minute, day -dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
“I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.”
“What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.”
“In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.”
“Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.”

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