“I have a great responsibility to meet the expectations of Liberian and African women. … I will be under the microscope all the time: Whatever I do and say, how well I am able to move the Liberian development agenda, how I am able to promote peace and reconciliation. I’ll have a lot of detractors who would want to see me fail, not only because of my long years of political activism in Liberia, but because they aren’t really convinced that women can be leaders.”
–Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (above), Liberia’s new president-elect on being the first woman elected to lead an African country, in Time Europe
“I learned that if you love the thing you fear, the fear will go away.”
–Linda Krulikowski, a Connecticut woman who overcame her phobia of snakes by becoming an expert on them, in The (Connecticut) Day
“If we were really serious about a creative life, we were going to need what large Latino families are so good at providing: love, support and baby-sitting.”
–arts reporter and art entrepreneur Kathy Cano Murillo, who runs CraftyChica.com, in Working Mother
“I tell them it’s a brain disorder. Children don’t chose to have it and parents don’t cause it.”
–Dr. Julie O’Toole, medical director of Kartini Clinic, a Portland, Ore., center for eating disorders, about the rise in anorexia among children, in Newsweek
“I feel we are sort of `The Honeymooners,’ only I’m the Jackie Gleason character. Obviously, he irritates me on a significant basis, as everyone’s significant other does.”
–singer Madonna, on her marriage to director Guy Ritchie, in Rolling Stone
“I went from stripping to stripping floors.”
–Brenda Durand, a former exotic dancer who started a business that refurbishes hardwood floors, repairs walls and touches up paint, in The Indianapolis Star
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Compiled by WomanNews staff
