Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.
Interpretation
Encouraging women to gain skills that lead to financial independence is vital.
This quote emphasizes the importance of equipping women, particularly daughters and granddaughters, with skills that enable them to achieve financial independence. It suggests that everyone, regardless of gender, should have the opportunity to develop talents that can lead to a fulfilling career, thereby empowering them in society.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech at a women's empowerment seminar.
Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.
"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.
So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.
When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
We donβt really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.
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