As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.


Benazir Bhutto

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of wom...
LYNN NOTTAGE
I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't thi...
MINDY KALING
A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ
Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.
When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH
So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM
Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB
The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil. but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV
Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE
There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great...
DOLORES HUERTA
I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN
The architecture of a woman's body is really amazing
SOTONYE ANGA
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman wou...
GERMAINE GREER
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS...
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING
[He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD
...Why haven’t we had sex in six days?”

“Because you have a bullet wound.”
<...
LORELEI JAMES
The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to...
BETTY FRIEDAN
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
HELENA RUBINSTEIN
It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS...
A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... befor...
BILL GATES
Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO
Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters a...
KATHRYN LASKY
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS
I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
SEX AND THE CITY
The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
GEORGE JAMES
There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kin...
NICOLE BEHARIE
I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter...
ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA
Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would b...
GERMAINE GREER
As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consu...
KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
I am going to be a leader and a president who happens to be a woman. But I am glad to be a woman bec...
ELLEN JOHNSON
It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT!
BETTY GRABLE
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be o...
MAYA ANGELOU
Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly...
CHLOE THURLOW
Underwear is the female second skin.
CHLOE THURLOW
When you undress a woman you discover in her lingerie clues to her mood and desires. These whispers ...
CHLOE THURLOW
Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE
She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST
You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initiall...
MADELEINE STOWE
In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN
I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like th...
MEGALYN ECHIKUNWOKE
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car ch...
FRANCES MCDORMAND
Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE
It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY
Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or inf...
ANNA WINTOUR
Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter...
MINNA ANTRIM
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK
O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive ...
JOAQUIN MILLER
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism...
EVANGELINE LILLY
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

More Benazir Bhutto

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and phi...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rul...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
They were no help in Karachi (site of escalating violence) or with the bomb blasts. All I got from t...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Now, when people are dying, you don't really look at who's offering the help. You take it. The first...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I think it's very unfortunate for Pakistan that yet another government, a democratically-elected gov...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
dangerous, repressive era with a man (Sharif) who has his finger on a nuclear button.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
We have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and we hope that when we appeal, the Supreme Court ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfac...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
militants are going to land up in Pakistan, try to regroup there and redirect their efforts in south...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
It pains me that they are using the judicial authorities here to score certain political points back...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
despite it our many people won their seats.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
He is highly unpopular, ... because people in our country blame the military for destabilizing civil...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Mayb...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, t...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departur...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extrem...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisivel...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The cleri...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard b...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that w...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building po...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the co...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the p...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a de...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
You see, they think they're saving you, and you think you're saving them. That's where the trouble s...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
My Country
I don't have any caps left made back home
Nor any shoes that trod your roads FATIMA BHUTTO
Let's build a monument for the veto. Let's build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO
Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most nonallied.
ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO
We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have ...
ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO
I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.
BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI
I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at...
BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI
I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.
BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI
I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will ...
BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI
I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all hav...
BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI