Women from Scotland

"Silly ass. The land would be much more valuable today."

"We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in."

"Which one? My sister, my mother or my husband?"

"You have done more to bring shame on the family than could ever have been imagined."

"Not once have you hung your head in embarrassment even for a minute after those disgraceful photographs. Clearly you have never considered the damage you are causing us all. How dare you discredit us like this and how dare you send me those flowers?"

"Her Royal Highness was charming ("I have this terribly flat voice," she told me apologetically), with a ready sense of humour and a dry wit. We did one rehearsal and the producer said: "That's very good, Ma'am, but do you think you could sound as if you were enjoying yourself a little more?" She looked him straight in the eye and said acidly, "Well, I wouldn't be, would I?""

"But we can go back further still, for the thing did not start with Princess Anne, either; before her there was Princess Margaret. She, too, was attacked for going on holiday, and indeed for putting on weight, but the main charges, which seem almost incredible today, concerned her choice of men friends - and after, not before, her divorce."

"She is far too bright for her station in life, which she takes altogether too solemnly."

"I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for."

"If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!""

"A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth."

"In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me."

"Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!"

"Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity."

"I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled."

"The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope."

"When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour."

"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least."

"The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset — that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun."

"Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me."

"“I’ve seen things like this before,” the woman medic said. “Awed whispers, peaceful expressions when there shouldn’t be one, and almost always a song. Once I even thought I heard the tune. Makes you wonder what’s out there.”"

"Keith seems to be able to see and hear angels from time to time."

"I hardly think an angel would walk around like a homeless person in the middle of New York."

"“…to know Keith is to love him. A lot of people seem to be especially disturbed by him, although I’ve never understood why. Does he make you uncomfortable?” There was no hint of judgment in her question, just curiosity."

"“Perhaps Keith is exactly the way God intended him to be.”"

"“I’m sure that if he really does see angels, they are sent to him for a specific purpose that is beyond our understanding. And if someone else—say, you, for example—were to see or hear angels, it might be for an altogether different purpose.”"

"“The lamp’s not shining.” He pointed at the glow on the wall. “That’s the angel. He’s blinking the lamp.”"

"If only everyone could see, they would realize that the one they thought weak, was actually the strongest one among them."

"“Tearing out the old, icky stuff is hard, it’s messy—ouch!” He dropped the hammer from his right hand and shook his left. “Ouch!” He danced around for a minute before regaining his composure, picking up the hammer and nail again, then looked at her straight-faced. “And at times it’s downright painful. But you’ve got to be willing to go through the process if you really want to see a true change. Anything less is just a cover-up.”"

"“‘Don’t forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.’ It’s from the Bible. Maybe your friend’s an angel too. I hope you were nice to him.”"

"“That’s why God sends His angels to me and you, maybe. So we won’t be sad anymore.”"

"That’s where faith comes in. You trust that Someone bigger than you can handle it, and you learn that it’s okay to accept help every now and then instead of always giving it."

""I think it’s time I started believing in something.”"

"The rule of law is believed by most people to be “a good thing”—but that is only the case if the laws are just and fair laws and if they are followed honestly by legislators and implementers of the law, rather than being perverted by perverse motives."

"Some of the new religions have undoubtedly performed some bad things at some times and some places. But the same could be said about the established, “legitimate” religions. Why, one may ask, cannot the bad actions, whatever they be, be dealt with by legislature applicable to all religions and their members—indeed, all citizens—once it is alleged they have broken a law?"

"Eileen Barker’s extraordinary work in religious studies and the defense of religious liberty has left an indelible mark on academia and society. Her significant role in fostering understanding, promoting religious freedom, and advocating for global tolerance cannot be overstated. Eileen Barker’s impact on religious studies is evident in her pioneering research on new religious movements. Through meticulous ethnographic research and the development of innovative methodologies, she has shed light on previously misunderstood or stigmatized religious groups. Her work has challenged stereotypes, aiding in the recognition of diverse faith traditions and fostering greater understanding and empathy among scholars and the general public alike."

"Eileen Barker, Professor Emerita of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and arguably the world’s most senior scholar of new religious movements, explained to the audience [at the conference session New Religious Movements and Contemporary Threats to Religious Freedom] that there is a difference between the role of a sociologist of religion and the role of an advocate. To stress that you look at a religion with the neutral gaze of the social scientist is “the best way you can be an advocate,” Barker said. This does not mean, she added, that sociologists cannot have strong feelings for religious liberty, and they can help protecting it by debunking misinformation about religious minorities."

"What’s this dull town to me? Robin’s not near. He whom I wished to see, Wished for to hear; Where’s all the joy and mirth Made life a heaven on earth? O! they’re all fled with thee, Robin Adair."

"I am just not cut out to run a public company and be answerable to hundreds of faceless shareholders."

"My parents always strove to try to ensure their children would have more than they had. That is really what made them tick."

"My father was from a strong working class background and came from an age where it was believed education was wasted on women. He used to say things like: 'If she was a boy I could understand it'."

"I wanted to demonstrate to my father I was still a good working class girl who would get married and have kids like everyone else. I soon realised it wasn't a very clever thing to have done."

"My mother had a lot to do with bringing up my daughter. I knew that when I left her with my mother she was safe and then I could get on with my career."

"To continue in psychology, I would have had to do educational psychology and you had to teach for a couple of years. The last thing I wanted to do was teach."

"My biggest horror is waking up in the morning and finding that I didn't have anything to do."

"“I always said that I wouldn’t lose a fortune on a football club.”"

"Again, that's a really difficult question to answer. I sat on the board for a couple of seasons and I know how difficult these things are."

"I think they made some very poor decisions. I also think that having realised that they maybe misjudged this, they could have said: 'Actually, we got a couple of things wrong here'. But that's not common in Scottish football, people don't generally hold their hands up and say: 'Oh, we got this wrong'."

"I think there's been so much negativity and it has reached such a height that without an independent review it's not ever going to to go away."

"I've sat on the SPFL board and I've approved a loan for another club. I know that loans can be approved."

"What they were looking for was input and advice from me with my business background to strengthen where they were with their plans. It was absolutely clear to me that their hearts were in the right place. What was required was more of a business perspective."

"As time went on, I definitely bought into the whole concept and became more involved."

"To be honest, being CEO and having that level of involvement in everything going on in the club – being in the thick of things – was what I loved, but the moment was right to step back from that."

"we want to make the club as successful as possible in Europe. That’s a game changer for Hearts and if we consolidate our position in the top three or four clubs in Scotland, that has to be our target."

"If something is wrong, it is wrong and we should all be doing our utmost to correct that wrong."

"To pour more financial hardship on specific clubs, given what we are all going through both now and for the foreseeable future, is both outrageous and shameful. We should be standing together to help clubs to survive and to save jobs."

"I know the passion, I know how much football means but so much of what you see and hear is illogical. The team is having a bad run; it happens to more or less everybody. I just think it’s unpleasant and feel for those in the firing line because if only life was that simple. You can deal with it for so long then it begins to wear you down."

"I’ve been criticised for spending money we didn’t have."

"No, I didn’t do that; I spent money I knew we had. Maybe we shouldn’t go into the discussion about whether I’ve always spent it wisely."

"I had to stamp cheques every day; thousands of them. I’d get to 1,500 stamps, and then I'd forget the number, and I have to start it all again. It just wasn't my dream of how I would spend my life"

"Legacy”? Just a bit, then! Whilst much of it is proud “legacy”, the bank, like every well-established financial services firm, had no shortage of ageing infrastructure and applications to clean up. Mercifully, a major overhaul had already born fruit when Russell joined in 2024, she cheerfully admits."

"I think the partnership bonus was the most critical [lesson]. [I learned early on that] you work better in a partnership than you do in a traditional supplier relationship, because you understand what your client is trying to do better, and you'll go the extra mile to help them do that."

"They touch almost everything at the bank” she says on production deployments, citing “anomaly detection on our asset servicing platforms, trade settlements; on our Client Services team, we have a multi-agentic solution; these are delivering real value in dollar terms and productivity terms. I would say that scale [of deployment] is pretty unique…”"

"environment you're trying to play into, you can standardize your own products, make your own business better… get into that real win-win for both organizations” she adds. “Nobody's successful without great partnerships. That is a real focus for me in engineering.”"

"We should be in a strong position to inspire the next generation of female leaders. However, our post-pandemic ways of working may deny many women the opportunities that were so important to me in my early career."

"In the early head-spinning weeks of Covid lockdown, we were quick to champion the benefits of home working."

"So many ditched the commute and extolled the virtue of flexibility and being able to balance home and work life more seamlessly."

"It was only in the months that followed, that people realised the downside of home working wasn’t benefitting everyone equally."

"We find, certainly at Nationwide... that men are more likely to come into the office than women"."

"Being seen and then seeing other leaders is a really important part of development."

"I benefited enormously from watching some really excellent leaders and how they navigated challenging problems."

"Businesses do have a role to play in that."

"We just need to be careful that we don't inadvertently prevent women from taking some of the opportunities by not being in the office when they feel it's beneficial both to their skills and to contribute to the business."

""would absolutely have to look at options"."

"Depending on what we learn from AI . . . there may be an opportunity for BT to be even smaller by the end of the decade."

"There’s been a lot to be proud of this year, but one of the most powerful accomplishments is the progress we've made through the Homelessness Task Force."

"More than 20 individuals who were once living on the streets are now in real homes, and that shift has improved life for the entire community."

"The numbers are encouraging. We’ve gone from 30 motor vehicle thefts in 2023 to six so far this year."

"We’ve submitted our Housing Element and Fair Share Plan as required by state law. It’s posted on the city’s website so that residents can review and understand what’s being proposed."

"Right now, we’re waiting for an appraisal of the property."

"Once that’s complete, the city can move forward with plans for a sale."

"What made this possible was a state grant program that only opens up about once every 15 years."

"I have personally worked with this group to help educate the public on the benefits of waiting and I believe they will be able to collaborate with our schools to spread the message."

"It will take a partnership between parents and schools to help mitigate the effects of cell phone use among teens."

"Now that we’ve had real success in helping individuals move into stable housing, we’re turning our focus to prevention."

"I was homeless and penniless when I first started at King’s."

"I found my feet and wings, and King’s supported my accommodation for three years. ‎*Starting as a student to becoming a part of staff faculty."

"I rode the cusp of socio-economic changes as more women entered medicine."

"I also witnessed great advances in liver diseases, my chosen speciality."

"During that early period, when suffragette tactics consisted of trying to reach the House of Commons, and in the first arrests when speaking in the lobby, my sister Anne was the first Scotswoman arrested. She had gone to London a day or two before. Called by my father to come downstairs, I found him with the Glasgow Herald open before him with a banner headline in the centre page: “Glasgow Councillor’s daughter arrested”. He said, “did you know about this.” I replied, “I knew she was going to a meeting but I did not know anything else. He looked at me under his brows in the way we regarded as serious and I oozed out of the room. He came home in the evening quite reconciled to it, and when Anne came home after fourteen cold days in Holloway Prison he took her to a municipal reception saying to her, “Put on your prettiest dress and come with me.” She looked charming and he introduced her all round as “My prisoner daughter”."

"I had a lovely time in Wales speaking and building up their branches."

"They chose me to go to Wales because Wales had been difficult when they had tried other people."

"I got to know all the headmistresses you see and nearly all of them suffragists."

"They were swooped into the movement so that Wales had a very representative group of women."

"The most intelligent women, it got the women that were leaders."

"He’s just a great, very funny guy, and he has a singular way of approaching film. The biggest thing for me was having to guide him through the casting process for a narrative film, because he was used to doing his own thing with documentaries."

"He was very receptive to what I had to say, and I was very receptive to what he had to say. We tried to cast people who [didn’t look] too contemporary, because it is a period piece. So I helped guide him through marrying a look with an acting skill."

"Aunjanue is great. We were very lucky to get her. We wanted to have her in the film because she’s just so fresh."

"Be prepared to leave it in the room, because you can overthink it. I’d say to young actors to look at the work of great actors. If there’s someone you like, take a look at their entire career and how they’ve grown."

"I had been to a NASCAR race once and I was like, ‘yeah, this is not for me"

"My passion was around using financial statements as the scoreboard of your business to increase profitability and improve cash flow and decrease taxation"

"The racing department was just hemorrhaging money,"

"how is it possible that the number one most prestigious team in Porsche racing is owned by a woman, and that is something that isn't even on my trajectory’"

"“I am interested in exploring narratives that reflect the diversity of experiences of the African diaspora. I believe that we have a lens that is unique because of our cultural duality and we do not see enough of those across the breadth of output in the European cinema space.”"

"Team work makes the dream work, so choose the right collaborators."

"...in a better sanitary condition than any in the North Island."

"I think women are quite as well able to legislate as men..."

"I am most anxious to make a change in the way business is carried on. There is in both borough councils and in Parliament too, a great deal too much talk...Men often get up and talk at these meetings just to waste time..."

"No woman, however degraded, but should have women to look after them."

"Most emphatically I am not a prohibitionist."