Quotes

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“I urge you to: Trudge not through life leaving ugly gashes, Tiptoe not through life leaving half-formed impressions, But tread gently, lovingly and purposefully Leaving graceful heart-prints.”

— Unity Dow, the Botswana High Court Judge

“Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.”

— Hermann Hesse

“It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.”

— Robin Morgan (1941- ) feminist editor and writer

“You have got to know what it is you want, or someone is going to sell you a bill of goods somewhere along the line that can do irreparable damage to your self-esteem, your sense of worth, and your stewardship of the talents that God gave you.”

— Richard Nelson Bolles

“While Australia was the first country to give women the right to stand as well as to vote for the national parliament, Finland was the second. And Finland immediately elected nineteen women to its parliament (in 1907) while Australia had essentially given women the right to stand but not to sit. It was not until 1943 that the first women took their seats in Australia’s national parliament.”

— Professor Marian Sawer, Gillard PM: is gender irrelevant now? Politics and Policy, 30 June 2010

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves —
to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”

— Stewart B. Johnson

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

— Kofi A. Annan

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

— Mark Twain
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