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"People learn to lead because they care about something."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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"People learn to lead because they care about something."
People


"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."
Woman


"I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod."
Man


"Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues."
Woman


"Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond."
Woman


"Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life."
Life


"What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality."
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"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal."
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"We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something."
Woman
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