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Sometimes compromise is painful.
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.
The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.
Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.
When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.
Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.
Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.
It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.