Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the positive transformation in societal perceptions of motherhood and womanhood, emphasizing empowerment and progress.
Kathleen Sebelius's quote reflects a significant shift in society's views on women, particularly mothers. It underscores the notion that being a mother should not hold a woman back or be seen as a disadvantage, nor should womanhood itself be considered a limiting factor. This change represents broader societal progress towards equality and the recognition of women's rights and capabilities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at a women's empowerment event.
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
I would like to see evolution in my country, not revolution. It is much better for us to work together with the government to transform Saudi Arabia for the future.
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career β in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad β watching the people within those borders burn.
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