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I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.
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My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
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We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
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I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
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Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.
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Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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