Quentin Bryce Quotes

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• Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust,…
• When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed…
• Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
• Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.
• Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world…
• The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for…
• The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much…
• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
• Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.
• One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them…
• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How…
• All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of…
• Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many…
• I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
• The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals…

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