Bertha Knight Landes quotes

“Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.”
-- Bertha Knight Landes

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“In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.”
-- Bertha Knight Landes

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“Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.”
-- Bertha Knight Landes

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“Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.”
-- Bertha Knight Landes

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“Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.”
-- Bertha Knight Landes

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“I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.”

“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan

“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.”

Source : Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

“The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.”