Faye Wattleton Quotes & Sayings

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.”

“My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.”

“The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.”

“I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.”

“I have never believed in the impossible.”

“My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.”

“'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.”

“Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.”

“A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.”

“One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.”