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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Madeleine M. Kunin
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: September 28
Diplomat
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City of Zurich
Madeleine May Kunin
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
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When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
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Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.
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The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
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