Hazel Hawke Quotes

19 quotes in 377 categories

• A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden,…
• Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if you just want…
• The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important…
• It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do.
• I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.
• Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is…
• Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.
• I think that women of my generation have had a real need to form networks and friendships because it's been, as they say, a man's…
• It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and…
• I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as…
• Women who have had more opportunity to develop their own strengths and talents, or who are quite satisfied and content in a traditional role, unfortunately…
• Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.
• The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.
• One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.
• One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands…
• Most of all, I like the quiet, rounded tugs. They remind me of women. As I watch them work I see them as kindly, no-fuss…
• Nature's Moods The water is always changing and whenever you look at it you get something back. I'm sure the water isn't aware of me…
• Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky.…
• FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

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