“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”
“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”
“The day will come when men will recognise women as their peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.”
“Society is indeed a contract – becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
“It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
“Having the freedom of speech does not mean saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.”
“War is not women’s history.”
“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.”
