Pastoral Resources

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

War is a defeat for humanity.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.