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.
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
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