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“The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.”
“There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.”
“Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.”
“The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting...”
“Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?”
“I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.”
“Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.”
“The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.”
“I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.”
“Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as ...”
“I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me if I fail to make my own choices the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recogniz...”
“To be a man is precisely to be responsible.”
“In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.”
“Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.”
“Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.”
“He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.”
“What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.”
“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”
