Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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WomenKeyGrowingClassEconomy

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

GodDayYouFallSeventyRise

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.

Joel Coen

ThinkKindAlwaysOutSystemBeat

Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.

Joel Salatin

BeautifulTexasThinkPlaceMore

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

Anand Giridharadas

FatherMotherFoodCookingEating

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

Amanda Lindhout

LifeLiveFreedomMyselfMy Life

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

Simon Reuben

HandNeverHeadScreenComputerUse

A sure-fire way to know you're crazy is if more than one person has told you you'd be great on a reality show - and you agree with them.

Tracy McMillan

GreatCrazyRealityYouPersonKnow

Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

Tony Harrison

AngryYouYesGotWellGet

Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

Tom Hodgkinson

WinterFreedomBirdsEnoughBadCry

Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy.

Ronny Chieng

GoodLawyerFindingYouGoBarber

I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.

Mary Berry

LoveWomenMenYourselfStand Up

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

Michelle Kwan

LoveMeThinkBodySometimesWhy

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