Ita Buttrose quotes

Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Women #Years #Imagination

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Wisdom #Limitation

Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph to Rupert Murdoch in 1972, I lost my position as women's editor. Suddenly the phones stopped ringing. All the people who said they were my friends, I didn't hear from them. I was only in my 20's, and that was a sobering lesson to learn: how fleeting everything is, and how easily it can be taken away from you. So you never take yourself too seriously, you never think you're too important.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Leadership #Taken #Sunday

Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Wisdom #Impossible #Loser

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Women #Operations #Liberation

The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Women #Live Life #Past

I played to win. When I was a child, my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians in the park, and I was always an Indian who got captured. That was a learning experience; they were showing me that as a woman I was going to be captured. But in a metaphorical sense, I think I did eventually become a cowboy.
-- Ita Buttrose

#Education #Brother #Children

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

I want in all cases to do right.

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.