Quentin Bryce Quotes & Sayings
19 most famous Quentin Bryce quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.”
“For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.”
“I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.”
“I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.”
“It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.”
“I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.”
“Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.”
“I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?”
“I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.”
“Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.”
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