“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“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.”
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.”
“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.”
“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.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.”
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“But the artist persists because they have the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.”
