Quotes

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“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied, and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one thousand generations back of them … Millions of women, dead and gone are speaking through us today.”

— Matilda Joslyn Gage, from National Citizen and Ballot Box, 1889 — a newspaper she founded and edited.

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

— J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

— Mark Twain

“In the networking world, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”

— Robyn Henderson

“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.”

— Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

“Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa (St Teresa of Kolkata)

“…there is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls.”

— Kofi A. Annan

“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”

— Ben Elton, Blast from the Past

“Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.”

— Ruth E. Renkel
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