Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

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Madeleine M. Kunin

Profession : Diplomat

Birth : September 28, 1933

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

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The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

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Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

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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.

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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.

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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

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Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

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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.

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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?

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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

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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.

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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.

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