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“What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.”

Thinking Interesting Powerful Position Appearance Sexuality Fertility

Author:Anna Holmes

“Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.”

Men Way Kids Position Treats Cooking Productive Pillars African Women

Author:Mo Ibrahim

“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.”

Feels Facts Form Turns Accepting Position Slavery Secure Experts Fancy Lifelong Fooled Specialization

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”

Thinking Men Want Hands Blood Position Students Intellectual Independent Average Flesh Suggestions Tribute Want Him Skillful Exertion Flesh And Blood Outraged

Book:Up from Liberalism

Source: Up from Liberalism

“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”

Thinking Humans Doe Humanity Causes Human Beings Position Embrace Anarchy Usual Apathy Stance

Author:Rod Serling

“How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.”

May Important Position Materials Possession Material Possessions

Book:The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand

Source: The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand

“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.”

Ifs Men Facts Lying Position Salvation Misery Punishment Lying Men

Book:The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

“In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.”

Position Active Debutantes

Author:Amy Carter

“Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels.”

Today Position Cant Georgia Laurels

Author:Roy Barnes

“I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.”

Feels Different Problem School Challenges Team Position Football Evolve Hockey Feel Better Batting Hockey Team

Author:Rahul Dravid

“I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.”

Stills Wish Position Changed Ideals Pursue Never Change Anarchist

Author:Federica Montseny

“I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.”

People Thinking Way Position Critics Betray

Author:Antony Gormley

“When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.”

People Kind Position Promise Campaigns All Kinds

Author:Hugh Masekela

“As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.”

Long Water Position Consumers Gas Cheaper Dictating Bottled Water

Author:Bill Ford

“Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.”

Economic Position Shapes Connections Bases Determinism

Author:George W. Romney

“None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.”

War Position Victim Obligation

Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.”

Challenges Position Taxes Investing China Clarity

Author:Jim Oberweis

“I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.”

Sometimes Literature Interesting Fiction Position Historical Critics Historical Fiction

Author:Philippa Gregory

“Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.”

World Way Made Hands Beautiful Artist Natural Talking Player Talent Position Balls Clubs Impression Around The World Enjoyed Addresses Unbelievable Spectators Countenance Natural Talent

Author:Ben Crenshaw

“By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.”

Firsts Long Company Fate Worst Position Drawing Employment Chiefs Hated Irony Telephones Secured Annoyance Electrician

Author:Nikola Tesla

“One only really loves from a feminine position.”

Position Feminine

Author:Jacques-Alain Miller

“A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.”

Play Games Position Athlete Best Ever

Author:Al Davis

“I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.”

Thinking Men World Different Asks Position Men And Women Shocking Single Women Position Of Power

Author:Salma Hayek

“I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.”

Want Trying Looks Kind I Can Play Able Certain Grows Roles Growing Up Position Strategy

Author:Tom Welling

“There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions.”

Knows Impossible Position Ought All Things Conception Omnipotent Enlargement

Author:Smith Wigglesworth

“I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.”

Position Secure

Author:Michael Hastings

“John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.”

Hurt Position Iraq Shoulders Surgery John Kerry

Author:Craig Kilborn

“The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why - with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him.”

People Two Secret Issues Position Mad Protection John Kerry Secret Service Mad At Him

Author:Jay Leno

“Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.”

People Important Values Wise Teaching Position Listening Appreciation Mutual Stations Suggestions Teaching And Learning Listening To Others Wise People True Value Deep Meaning Deep Listening

Author:Chungliang Al Huang

“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.”

Men Should Persons Philosophy Political Nations Church Poor Worry Position Fine Needed Citizens Taxes Concern Accepted Statements Officials Relief Secular Conform Presbyterians

Book:Elizabeth I

Source: Elizabeth I

“The main factor for Craig was that he was being asked to move to a new position in the last year of his contract. We had empathy for that and we wanted to show what he has meant to the Astros over the years.”

Years Shows Wanted Lasts Moving Position Empathy Factors Contracts Last Year New Position

Author:Gerry Hunsicker

“Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.”

Sometimes Impossible Position Supposed To Be Girlfriend Outsiders Economist

Author:Thomas Piketty

“Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.”

Looks Ideas Hard Lines Accepting Class Position Happenings Picks Thirds Going Away This Day Palestinian Class Status

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.”

Thinking Feels Trying Two Artist Culture Enjoy Position Broken Always Trying Mediation Two Cultures

Author:K'naan

“I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.”

Position Planets Musician Stigma Undervalued

Author:K'naan

“I do think the position I play is a powerful position.”

Thinking Play Powerful Position

Author:Denise Morrison

“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.”

People Church Position Mets England Extraordinary Arrogance Significance Presumptuous Smugness Church Of England

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”

Life Giving Order Leadership Position Duty Command Live Your Life Humiliation Humiliated

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.”

Thinking Knows World Moments Atheism Position Succeed Positive Atheism Neighbor Introducing Hypocrite Despotism

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.”

World Giving Art Soul Jobs Poetry Force Position Objects Poet Habit Dues Strikes Invisible Visible Tragic Unusual Glue

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.”

Ifs Whole Form Poetry Literature Accepting Economy Position Speed Outcomes Internals Interpretation Crucial Passages Subordinates Banality

Author:Umberto Eco

“You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.”

Ifs Running Roles Position Fit Versions Supposed To Be Being The Best Do The Best Mold Quarterback

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.”

“My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.”

Jesus Christ Possibility Position Jesus Christ Prophet John Kerry

Author:Todd Gitlin

“Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is still my responsibility to fight for her rights. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.”

Source: Bad Feminist: Essays

“Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.”

Writing Today Found Study Century Fashion Style Position Ignorance Directors Research Aim Paris Tone Colour Quarters Academic Charming Impart Endearing Haughtiness

Author:Sebastian Smee

“As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.”

Men Long Doe Self Plans Position Despair Remains Salvation Finals Occasions Contribution Smallest Self Confident

Author:Martin Luther

“Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.”

Enemy Atheism Position Positive Atheism Violent Clergy

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

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