Women Born In The 1950s

"I don’t believe we can address the issues of nutrition security, poverty, and health in Kenya without relying on African indigenous crops. With a soaring food crisis, and maize harvests predicted to be 16 percent below former years as a result of changing Kenyan weather patterns, the only grains that could adequately replace maize in my opinion would be indigenous millets and sorghum, which are more drought tolerant."

"Let us first invest in high-yielding varieties and bring in investors to put money into irrigation systems and soil fertility, that is make fertiliser cheaper by producing it locally. Then educate farmers on how to store the surplus harvest to avoid losses."

"Then increase mechanisation in ploughing and processing the harvests. For instance, instead of farmers doing manual shelling of groundnuts, they use a machine."

"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food."

"Originally I hired a tiny little car and drove around. I just drove through Italy knocking on doors. Then we grew up and suppliers came recommended to us, which was a nice moment in time. Even then I was going back and forth to Italy every other week. I got to a point where most Italian immigration officers didn't even check my passport anymore, just ‘Oh, you’re back again’ and I strolled on through.”"

"What I always found so amazing about fashion is just this idea that you could kind of create whatever persona you wanted to be. It feels amazing to put on a business suit. I love that you could put on high heels and feel like a different person, or you could put on whatever you choose and nobody knows where you came from. They just know who you are in that, what you're projecting.”"

"Italian manufacturers are very specialised and so we get recommendations for new craftsmen from our current factories. Nurturing this relationship is one of the most vital parts of our business. We work with partners - you spend a lot of time with these people and you're heavily dependent on them. It’s important to me that they're nice people, that you can consider them your family. Trust is key.”"

"Trends are quite organic - everyone seems to migrate together. If we’ve done a pointed toe for three seasons, I just want something fresh. Then you look at everybody else's line and you're like, “Oh”. I guess everyone's brain tries to do the opposite at the same time. Everyone's trying to be different and I'm the same.”"

"No, once my choice was done, I was able to go on myself."

"I don't see myself as a fashion person, and it's not something I really identify with because I've just never thought of myself as one of those girls. Growing up on a farm, among the plants and the horses, nobody cares what you look like. What kind of work you're gonna put in. Are you a nice person? Are you responsible? Do the horses trust you? OK, great.”"

"If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail."

"I made multiple leaps where there were no guarantees that I was going to be successful, By the way, I was not always successful. But I think if you go into something new with an open mind, and you let people around you know what you don't know, for the most part they're going to link arms with you."

"It is about the glory of life which always wins. But how many difficult moments we could have escaped if someone told us how to live in a different society or how to respect people from a different world."

"I see many, many young women now — and that's part of what excites me about the startup world — who have left great jobs and said, 'I think I can build something,'" "Eighty percent of them will probably fail at it, but they'll learn a ton, and they'll either be much better when they go back into a corporate job or they'll start a second company and they'll succeed. That's the way that we learn. We learn by making mistakes."

"“I would rather know where the cow came from, that we raised it, that it has one bad day. Just as I would rather grow my own vegetables than buy them from a store. Same goes with manufacturing. We work with incredible artisans so I know where the shoes come from. We are very hands on with the materials, I spend a lot of time looking into alternative fabrics - there is no waste. I'm really weird and geeky about this.”"

"Nobody retires from these jobs. You will be fired at some point."

"Because it's one of the great jobs," in a recent interview for Business Insider's podcast, "Success! How I Did It."

"The problem is not in the language, a new language is the smallest challenge of all; it’s about misunderstanding and absence of willingness to accept somebody or something different."

"So if you are somebody who is not afraid of risk and you love the creative process, it's great," she said. "Why would you not do it?"

"The message of this book is to the people who live in the so called equal society but who are not aware that their world is not equal for everybody. It might help them to open their eyes and see that life in the secure world of theirs isn’t always fair."

"The reasoning since my young age. At the High School, I was seduced by Analysis, and trigonometry I was fan of argumentations and proofs. This leads my choice of analysis at the university."

"I'm not a city person but I like the convenience of it. I lived in London for seven or eight years, which was amazing. London has quite a good balance of life; there's lots of greenery. Everybody enjoys work and enjoys taking time off. They enjoy patience, and food - it’s a very European mindset.”"

"An understanding and appreciation of the humanities is critically important in dermatology and in medicine in general. The humanities provide a framework for understanding mankind through disciplines including literature, religion, art, and music and helps us understand the innate characteristics of mankind including sympathy, kindness, good, and evil."

"My hero was my mother, Ethel Taylor, who had unwavering faith in me and taught me that I could achieve my professional goals despite obstacles and inequities."

"The greatest political danger for the board-certified dermatologist is related to scope of practice. In multiple states, legislation has been introduced to expand the scope of practice of mid level physician assistant providers that would eliminate the formal supervisory relationship between dermatologists and physician assistants."

"I suffered a lot from the negative way people in my community looked at me when I was a little girl and as a teenager, and certainly I felt very sad and in all the stages of my life as I tried to overcome the feeling that I was less than the other girls. But, thank God and thanks to my family, I could overcome that."

"Let your children get the vaccination against polio. A small dose will prevent a big disaster."

"One of the most difficult things for a child, is to be among other children, but feel different, in a country where disability is a stigma."

"I hope the campaign will reach every child in my country, so that everybody grows up healthy."

"If I could change anything, then it would be the way society looks at people with different disabilities."

"We always think that if we believe in certain things, there is only one way of true believing, which I think sometimes will collude with the powerful way. We think everybody should believe like that. Why? Because we have power. We have the power to coerce. We have the power to discipline."

"The difficulties and stigma I faced due to polio challenged me and turned me into the Sara Gadalla that I am."

"There’s no shortcut or silver bullet to being an inspirational leader. The only way to do it is to lead by example and in accordance with your values — ultimately you must walk the talk."

"It’s easier to inspire once you have a track record because people can just look at your CV and understand the experience and credibility you are bringing to the role. It is much harder for people coming in to a large leadership role for the first time."

"Bold Leadership is having the confidence and the capability to attract others and to inspire, motivate and support them in achieving predefined goals and objectives."

"When you see great leadership in action, then it’s apparent. And it’s similarly self-evident when leadership is lacking, or worse, missing in action."

"I’ve always been someone to make things happen. I get up every day and look at what we’re trying to do and what we want to achieve,”"

"I’m always thinking, what are we trying to do? What would it take to make it happen? What are the things we can or cannot manage, and how do we manage the rest to make sure we get there?”"

"Everyone could have been my grandfather in terms of age – they were highly networked businessmen, including the heads of the wool, dairy, kiwifruit and tourism boards,”"

"“I had to have the confidence to contribute and that came about because I believed in what we were doing. I thought about my contribution and how it could make a difference.”"

"It is tougher to run a sustainable business and was much tougher back in the late 90’s and even the 00’s, but it is absolutely essential that sustainable and ethical fashion designers and businesses have pioneered a way for others to follow, as business is now the most powerful vehicle for change in the world, where once before it was government or religion."

"I started in business there were very few women in business here, and women were not well regarded as a good business risk. It was a little bit tough to overcome these issues."

"We are known for our knitwear in luxury fibres that stand the test of time, fibres that deliver the garments that have longevity, with lightness and high performance characteristics, we have some innovative yarns and use a lot of fine beautifully high quality New Zealand merino grown with minimal intervention in the Southern Alps."

"The Minister put me in as the meat industry person because I think he wanted a different view other than the traditional leaders of the big commodity businesses, which were huge,”"

"“I loved every minute of it. One of the best management teams and it continues to be great. Through that team we went from being a market pariah to a bit of a market darling,”"

"We pulled back on all unnecessary (mainly capital) expenditure because we couldn’t afford to risk spending any money on anything other than necessities to ensure our residents were well cared for over this time until we knew where the pandemic was going.”"

"We didn’t know at that stage whether many of our residents could die tragically because of the pandemic as we were hearing horror stories from aged care homes overseas. Although we were experienced at caring for people, we just didn’t know what was ahead of us and what it would mean for our company’s viability,”"

"I retired but to be perfectly frank I was even busier than before. But it wasn’t as rewarding, I still loved management,”"

"Unlike other publishers, Elsevier makes all the retracted articles on ScienceDirect free in full text open access format. That means that anyone can download and read them. Since the vast majority of Elsevier articles are not open access, it is a bit strange that they choose to have retracted articles completely open access."

"In 2017 we recommended already that they change this practice and place retracted articles behind a paywall. We have to remember that there are institutions and countries who cannot afford to buy Elsevier content. These institutions rely on open access resources for their academic and scientific work. Therefore, Elsevier has to ensure that retracted articles are not easily accessible. These articles often represent erroneous research in forms of falsified data and findings. Elsevier should make them harder rather than easier to access."