Born Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image “My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Democracy Elections Mom Vote Women
I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I remember the first time my mother voted, and it was a hard-won battle to get the right to vote. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female! — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
