Women Born In The 1950s

"I never liked the idea of joining singing contests."

"It’s about honoring the journey, the friendships, the music, and the quiet miracles that happen when people come together with purpose."

"(It) made its way to the jazz charts, proving that Filipino artistry could hold its own alongside international acts."

"What made this album groundbreaking was its fusion of traditional and contemporary elements — ethnic instruments were masterfully incorporated, creating a unique Filipino sound."

"Music has always been a way for me to express gratitude."

"I believed that art should not be a competition. However, it was (singer-songwriter) Odette Quesada’s grandmother who persistently encouraged me to join. Eventually, I agreed — and the rest is history."

"By the grace of God, I have been given the many opportunities to remain active in the industry for over 45 years."

"When it’s shared with people you love — in a place that invites stillness and joy — that’s where the real magic happens."

"One of the boldest and most meaningful milestones in my career (and) it was a decision that required my lifetime savings — earnings from my tours — but more than just a financial investment, it was an investment in the future of Filipino artists and live entertainment."

"I don't believe we shall ever be finished."

"If you got this far, I want you to go on. Kia kaha tuahine - sister, be strong."

"The problems do not lie with female sport and leisure, but with the ways in which the male world and male sport creates and defines the ideological and material conditions that prescribe the female world. As in so much of life, it is time to stand back and object to incremental integration into the male world. Sport, recreation and leisure have a different meaning for women; we should act on the basis of our interpretation."

"And I start to dream - about the activities of women for temperance and the suffrage in this country, and about the activism of women for peace and disarmament; and I wonder if our great-grandmothers would have believed suffrage would be almost universal, and if we dare to dream of a world without nuclear weapons, without weapons, with peace."

"Running in all weathers. Running to the place of work. Running to despair. Running through the bottom door of the old building directly to the bathroom to be sick. Every day the same, and no way to control it. Every day my body saying, 'I can't stomach this anymore.'"

"It can also be rich and fulfilling."

"I am still afraid of getting too tired, of giving up. I am still afraid of staying in the job, and afraid of leaving it."

"I needed to separate from the person."

"I made a submission opposing the Civil Union legislation. Marriage is a civil and political right, and civil and political rights are not negotiable. You can't have half a right."

"Be nice to everyone. Everybody is on the same level. Kung part ng body, iba iba kaming parts, and one will not function without the other parts."

"Never a dull moment! Each day is different from yesterday."

"People don’t care if you’re the greatest actor if you’re a [pain to be with]. If everyone’s on their toes when you’re present, no one wants to work with you."

"'If you cannot stop them, join them.'"

"Kaya lang (But) there are some people talaga na really will just break your trust.""

"Those who can move from understanding the concerns of lower-paid urban omen workers in desperate need of child care to understanding isolated rural women at the end of metal roads who want extensions to bus routes; from noticing the absence of Maori explorers and pioneers from our history syllabus to observing that the same history is a record of only 49 per cent of the New Zealand population - these people are exceptional humans and rare souls in politics. Wherever they are found, they are more likely to be women."

"I want women to be politically aware all the time, in every conscious moment, in everything they do; and at the same time I know how exhausting it is to be so aware. I know how frustrating it is to feel so powerless. I know how it is to feel defeated before you start. But I want women to progress to a point where they recognise all the politics in their lives, to a point where the awareness is instinctive and need not be excessive, and to a point where they learn to choose political priorities, and to know that often there is not enough energy left for more than a patient observing."

"Women instinctively have the potential for a broader consciousness of politics than men. Our lives are more varied and less circumscribed. We do more things at any one time, in spite of the common myths, and generally have more responsibility."

"My first independent entry into the world of words, through reading, is associated inextricably with the cookies my mother used to bake when we were in Iowa. I acquired the written word more or less on my own; one might say I taught myself to read, although the groundwork was already laid for that grand activity upon which civilization is built. My earliest memories of toys are the alphabet blocks I played with. At the time when I discovered how to read, my parents – both writers five years out of the Iowa Writers Workshop – were finishing their Ph.D. in English in Denver, where, leery of babysitters, I tagged along to their classes under John Williams, Harold Priest, and Joe Billings."

"This song is a reminder that wherever life takes us, we remain one nation — strong, loving, and united. Most of all, it is my offering to every Filipino who continues to fight for our country."

"We are not a stamping pad of an overaged, disqualified pretender."

"People in Rockwell aren’t like this, so, they are Chinese. He even said, ‘No, you are contagious, you should leave.’ Contagious, just a cough? My national pride was hurt. I said, how dare you."

"I want to be remembered as a commissioner who served with honor and excellence. I stuck to independent decisions and was the lone dissenter in several Comelec decisions."

"As a graduate student, I encountered a book that still inspires me: Classic Papers in Genetics edited by . Sadly, it is now out of print, but it is a wonderful compendium of many groundbreaking papers,starting with Mendel’s ‘Experiments in Plant Hybridization’. It also includes several papers by my scientific hero, , who figured out the principle of as an undergraduate, and whose papers are a model of clarity and careful reasoning. I also really enjoy reading Peters’ prefaces to each paper, which place each work in its scientific and historical context."

"entails the regulation of , cell expansion, and , and patterning of the organ as a whole. s are ideally suited to dissecting these processes. Petals are dispensable for growth and reproduction, enabling varied manipulations to be carried out with ease. In ', petals have a simple laminar structure with a small number of cell types, facilitating the analysis of organogenesis. This review summarizes recent studies that have illuminated some of the complex interplay between the s controlling petal specification, growth and differentiation in Arabidopsis. These advances, coupled with the advantages of using petals as a model , provide an excellent platform to investigate the underlying mechanisms driving plant organogenesis."

"Flowers are organized into concentric s of s, s, s and s, with each of these floral organ types having a unique role in ... Sepals enclose and protect the flower bud, while petals can be large and showy so as to attract s (or people!). Stamens produce pollen grains that contain male gametes, while the carpels contain the ovules that when fertilized will produce the seeds. While the size, shape, number and elaboration of each of these organ types can be quite different, the same general organization of four floral organ types arranged in concentric whorls exists across all species. As I shall explain in this Primer, the ‘ABC model’ is a simple and satisfying explanation for how this conserved floral architecture is genetically specified. What is the ABC model? The ABC model was first explicitly articulated in 1991, in a seminal paper by and . Although s affecting floral organ identity had been known for centuries, it was the systematic analyses of these mutations, and of the phenotypes produced by double and triple mutants, that proved to be critical in developing the ABC model."

"Government programmes are making a positive difference, not a negative one. We must ask the right questions and expect answers."

"The Government knows that New Zealanders need a sense of certainty and security about their publicly funded health services. We all need to know that publicly funded services will be there when we need them."

"We have a record. We intend to deliver."

"Most New Zealanders are colourful and determined people, ambitious, forward looking, energetic and productive, caring and compassionate."

"We can't look back nostalgically as some are wont to do, to failed remedies of the past. We must keep up, keep going, keep progressing."

"Let this year be one where parties say what they stand for, not against. Let's get rid of the whingeing and weak criticism which occurs for the sake of it."

"The way to solve it is not necessarily becoming more liberal but rather trying to find ways that both educate, treat people who are clearly ill and deny access where that's possible."

"This is an extraordinary set of circumstances that currently prevail. I think we must wait and see what occurs."

"I don't think that we should try and beat history."

"God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent, and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn’t intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest."

"Grace is God’s radical, unconditional love for all humanity and all creation."

"“I used to wish I had an easier life," he mused. "Some families sail through years with nothing touching them. They have no tragedies. They go on about how lucky they are. Yet sometimes it seems to me they're half alive. When something goes wrong for them, and it does for everyone sooner or later, their trauma is much worse. They've had nothing bad happen to them before. In the meantime, they think little problems, like losing a wallet, are big deals. They think it's ruined their day. They have no idea what a hard day's like. It's going to be incredibly tough for them when they find out.""

"Then there was the realisation that I didn't actually feel that much better when I was thin(ner). In fact the 'thin' version felt worse because I lived with hunger clawing at my stomach all the time, and in fear that I was going to get fat again. After years of neuroticism I'd finally understood those who loved me would continue to put up with me fat or thin, and those who didn't ignored me. As a middle-aged woman I was pretty much invisible anyway. To pass unnoticed through an image-obsessed society is surprisingly liberating"

"Cleo's motto seemed to be: Life's tough and that's okay, because life is also fantastic. Love it, live it - but don't be fooled into thinking it's not harsh sometimes. Those who've survived periods of bleakness are often better at savoring good times and wise enough to understand that good times are actually great.”"

"One of the many ways in which cats are superior to humans is their mastery of time. By making no attempt to dissect years into months, days into hours and minutes into seconds, cats avoid much misery. Free from the slavery of measuring every moment, worrying whether they are late or early, young or old, or if Christmas is six weeks away, felines appreciate the present in all its multidimensional glory. They never worry about endings or beginnings. From their paradoxical viewpoint an ending is often a beginning. The joy of basking on a window ledge can seem eternal, though if measured in human time it's diminished to a paltry eighteen minutes."

"Cats don't beat themselves up about not working hard enough. They don't get up and go, they sit down and stay. For them, lethargy is an art form. From their vantage points on top of fences and window ledges, they see the treadmills of human obligations for what they are - a meaningless waste of nap time.”"