Teresa Heinz quotes
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“I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "The real running mates". Interview with Pablo Martinez Monsivais, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 19, 2004.
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“I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "Transforming Teresa" by Gail Sheehy, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2004.
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“I learned something then, and I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anyone may be noticing and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't more required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America, the true patriots are those who dare speak truth to power.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.
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“There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.”
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“My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.”
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“John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "Heinz Kerry: John Would Avoid War". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2004.
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“You can call me Mama T anytime.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "Gay support for Kerry on display at convention" By Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.
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“I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.”
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“It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.”
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“My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. My only hope is that, one day soon, women who have all earned the right to their opinions -- instead of being called 'opinionated' will be called smart and well-informed, just like men.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.
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“Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "Heinz Kerry visits hurricane relief effort by U.S. Caribbeans". usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 15, 2004.
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“When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "Transforming Teresa" By Gail Sheehy, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2004.
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“I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.
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“As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.”
-- Teresa HeinzSource : Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.
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