Quotes

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

— Robyn Henderson

“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.”

— Rosemary O’Grady (Lawyer and Book Reviewer)

“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”

— Bill Gates makes the case for using a tool of business to improve the health and welfare of more of the world’s people.

“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: Who would prefer Saddam’s torture chambers still be open? Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.”

— Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, NBC News, 16 May 2004

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr

“War is not women’s history.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

— Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur

“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)

“Real women don’t have flushes, they have power surges.”

— Australian physician and author, Sandra Cabot

“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
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