#unity

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#feminists #opportunity #outcome

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#become #comfortable #get #given #may

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community. ↗

— Bill Joy

#come #community #editors #i #i think

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir was alive it was easy to veil the truth: that they were not a family-not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#solitude #family

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#anyone #craft #get #give #i

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#craft #depends #drink #eat #every

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#challenged #community #free #free nations #freedom

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#community #conscience #correlation #economically #empowered

Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#back #because #came #center #claim

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#bridge #discrimination #endless #equal #field