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I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be. ”
Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give. ”
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about. ”
Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture. ”
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted. ”
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ”
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. ”
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family. ”
I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement. ”
All my friends' mothers were appalling women. ”