"I have long ties to the women's community."

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Source : "Donna Shalala : The Administration's Point Woman at Health and Human Services". Interview with David Lauter, articles.latimes.com. July 18, 1993.

Donna Shalala

#Ties Quotes #Long Quotes #Community Quotes

“O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”
“Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.”
“It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.”
“It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.”

Source : Belva Plain (2011). “Fortune's Hand”, p.159, Dell
“I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.”
“...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?”
“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
“As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.”

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