women-from-scotland

"Most emphatically I am not a prohibitionist."

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

"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..."

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

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

"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’"

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

"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"

"The racing department was just hemorrhaging money,"

"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."

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

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

"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."

"“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.”"

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

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

"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."

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

"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”."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Businesses do have a role to play in 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…”"

"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."

"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."

"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.”"

"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"

"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."

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