Quotes

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“War is not women’s history.”

— Virginia Woolf

“… three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.”

— Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor-General of Australia 1982-1989

“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

“Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.”

— Germaine Greer, What will electing a woman PM do for Australian women? Sun Herald, 28 June 2010

“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”

— William McKnight, Former 3M CEO

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

— Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Columnist

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

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

“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren’t opposite—the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..”

— Deepak Chopra

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”

— George Lucas

“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
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