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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
~ Quentin Bryce
About
All Women
Around
Babies
Communities
Concern
Families
Formation
Getting
Having
Little
Lot
Men
Need
Now
Numbers
Say
Support
Used
Who
Women
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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.
~ Quentin Bryce
Balanced
Been
Care
Easier
Good
Hard
How
Important
Life
Long
Long Time
Mental
Now
Physical
Same
Same Time
Saying
Spiritual
Take
Than
Time
Truly
Very
Very Long Time
Wellbeing
Women
Workaholic
You
Young
Young Women
Your
Yourself
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
~ Quentin Bryce
Believe
Boy
Gives
I Believe
I Believe The
Network
No-One
Old
Power
Powerful
Privilege
Up
Willingly
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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.
~ Quentin Bryce
Advisory
Always
Any
Bush
Council
Friends
Friendship
Had
Indigenous
Inspired
Leader
Me
National
Outstanding
Remarkable
Remember
Until
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I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
~ Quentin Bryce
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Measures
Need
Special
Support
You
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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.
~ Quentin Bryce
Ability
Australians
Day
Education
Every
Every Day
Example
Expertise
Fields
For Example
I Think
Know
Language
Learn
Mean
Meeting
More
Much
Ought
People
Science
Seriously
Taking
Talent
Think
Want
Where
You
Young
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.
~ Quentin Bryce
Actually
Around
Business
Clear
Country
Decision-Making
Discussion
Every
Going
Highest
I Think
Levels
Progress
Recognition
Slow
Think
Too
Understanding
Very
Women
World
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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.
~ Quentin Bryce
Australian
Child
Country
Equality
Every
Expectancy
Gap
Got
Hard
Harder
I Think
Indigenous
Issue
Keep
Know
Life
Life Expectancy
Opportunity
See
Single
Think
True
Us
Work
Working
You
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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.
~ Quentin Bryce
Across
Australians
Country
Experiences
Extraordinary
Generosity
Great
Honour
Meet
Opportunities
Our
Privilege
Right
Share
Spirit
Who
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
~ Quentin Bryce
Fantastic
Got
Had
Jeans
Lot
Never
Owned
Pair
Wearing
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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.
~ Quentin Bryce
Acid
Action
Again
Attitude
Been
Communities
Decades
Drought
Fire
Flood
Get
Human
I See
Just
Livelihood
Long
Many
Mud
Over
People
Rally
Same
See
Throughout
Whole
Workings
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
~ Quentin Bryce
Absolutely
Families
Issue
Leave
Maternity
Men
Men And Women
Parental
Strengthening
Vital
Women
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
~ Quentin Bryce
Dad
Father
Feet
Had
His
How
Husband
I Can
Lessons
Me
Mother
Piano
Played
Playing
Remember
Successful
Teaching
Tell
Very
Violin
Waltz
Were
Will
You
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
~ Quentin Bryce
About
Around
Australia
Children
Council
Democracy
Door
Enjoyable
Executive
Government
House
Meeting
Most
Next
Next Door
Often
Our
Parliamentary
Talk
Tell
Them
Things
Travel
Walking
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
~ Quentin Bryce
Aboriginal
Ant
Anyone
Anyone Else
Artists
Dance
Done
Else
Honey
Honoured
Land
Leaders
Me
Never
Performed
Stick
Story
Women
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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.
~ Quentin Bryce
About
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Australian
Deciding
Discrimination
Goals
Guess
Lack
Language
Opportunity
Prefer
Setting
Setting Goals
Some
Take
Talking
Targets
Way
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
~ Quentin Bryce
Around
Because
Bonds
Come
Communication
Ease
Families
Generation
Important
Important Things
Improving
Next
Next Generation
Opportunities
Our
Powerful
Share
Things
Those
Very
Wherever
Women
World
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
~ Quentin Bryce
About
Art
Australia
Beauty
Both
Country
Culture
Dazzling
Environment
Forget
Granted
Indigenous
Much
Music
Natural
Natural Environment
Often
Our
Part
Perhaps
Take
Take For Granted
Talk
Thing
Writing
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
~ Quentin Bryce
Australia
Back
Central
Father
Go
Great
He
Heart
Industry
Manager
Mother
Our
Right
Roots
Teacher
West
Wool
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23 December, 1942
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