“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.”
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
“Because women’s liberation is a movement of the powerless for the powerless, its attraction is not immediately clear to the powerless, who feel they need alliance with the powerful to survive.”
“A snail could crawl the entire length of the Great Wall of China in 212 years, just slightly longer than the 200 years it will take for women to be equally represented in Parliament.”
“If it were between countries, we’d call it war; if it were a disease, we’d call it an epidemic; if were an oil spill, we’d call it a disaster; but it’s happening to thousands of Australian women – and it’s just a domestic.”
“Age measures life in years, but it’s the life in those years that contributes most..”
“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”
“Leadership is about capacity – the capacity of leaders to listen and observe, to use their expertise as a starting point to encourage dialogue between all levels of decision-making, to establish processes and transparency in decision-making, to articulate their own values and visions clearly but not impose them. Leadership is about setting and not just reacting to agendas, identifying problems, and initiating change that makes for substantial improvement rather than managing change.”
“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”
