Winnie Byanyima Quotes

The struggles to overturn colonial rule were long and often bitter. But, over time, most were inevitably successful.

Winnie Byanyima

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: January 13, 1959

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You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Jennifer Esposito

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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

Merton Miller

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Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Steve Carlton

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'Girls' is one of my favorite shows of all time. One of the things I love about Lena Dunham and Jenji Kohan and Shonda Rhimes is that they're all willing to show complex, amazing women.

Alysia Reiner

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I always wanted to be a mommy.

Stephanie Seymour

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John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

Sonny Mehta

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A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

Roberto Duran

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Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.

Roseanne Barr

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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Doris Lessing

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