Giddings Quotes & Sayings

I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health. — Lara Giddings

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament ... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing. — Lara Giddings

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? — Thomas Carlyle

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform. — Lara Giddings

I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner. — Lara Giddings

Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective. — Paula J. Giddings

One of the lesser-known contributions of the great Harriet Tubman was the devotion of her life after the war to a similar project. The woman who personally led three hundred slaves to freedom, who was a spy and "general" for the Union, spent her final years trying to establish the John Brown Home for the Aged. When the government refused to give her a full veteran's pension, the former general sold fruit and had a biography published to raise money for the institution. — Paula J. Giddings

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with. — Katy Perry

I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want. — Lara Giddings

In the same year, the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique added fuel to the fire of a growing feminist discontent. The author spoke to middle-class White women, bored in suburbia (an escape hatch from increasingly Black cities) and seeking sanction to work at a "meaningful" job outside the home. Not only were the problems of the White suburban housewife (who may have had Black domestic help) irrelevant to Black women, they were also alien to them. Friedan's observation that "I never knew a woman, when I was growing up, who used her mind, played her own part in the world, and also loved, and had children" seemed to come from another planet. — Paula J. Giddings

What tortures have men to endure, comparable to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships. — Lara Giddings

I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me. — Lara Giddings

My centaur, Annette thinks, as she looks out the window trying to ignore Dwayne, would find my journal interesting and moving. — Megan Giddings

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election. — Jordan Peele

I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians. — Lara Giddings

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage ... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom ... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you. — Paula Giddings

Ida was clearly exasperated by the fact that despite the motives that accompanied the lynching statistics published year after year - which Ida included in nearly every article - "law-abiding and fair-minded people should so persistently shut their eyes to the facts." Ida continued, "This record, easily within the reach of every one who wants it," made it "inexcusable" for anyone not to debunk the presumption from the beginning. — Paula J. Giddings

There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues. — Lara Giddings

My first job as premier will be to go back to basics. — Lara Giddings

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others. — Paula Giddings

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point. — Lara Giddings

The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy. — Lara Giddings

Sojourner Truth, who squelched the heckler with an oft-quoted speech. In the first place, she said, Jesus came from "God and a woman - man had nothing to do with it."66 Secondly, Truth asserted that women were not inherently weak and helpless. Raising herself to her full height of six feet, flexing a muscled arm, and bellowing with a voice one observer likened to the apocalyptic thunders, Truth informed the audience that she could outwork, outeat, and outlast any man. Then she challenged: "Ain't I a woman?"67 — Paula J. Giddings

The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded - and retained. — John Medina

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog. — Lara Giddings

The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side. — Lara Giddings

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men. — Lara Giddings