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I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.
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