Kirner Quotes

#1. I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

Joan Kirner

#2. I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist.

Joan Kirner

#3. I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Christine Lagarde

#4. Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.

Joan Kirner

#5. I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.

Joan Kirner

#6. There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

Peter Berg

#7. Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio - you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today - Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.

Bill Maher

#8. I can't help it; this isn't like you at all. I know the blood exchange changes things - including mood and body chemistry - but this is beyond any kind of scientific explanation.

J.A. Saare

#9. Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

Joan Kirner

#10. A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

Joan Kirner

#11. It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.

Joan Kirner

#12. I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

Joan Kirner

#13. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through. But everything starts with the thought.

Wayne Dyer

#14. This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have.

Alexander Maksik

#15. The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter.

Annie Proulx

#16. I'm not white. Why should I care about the future of white societies

Roosh V

#17. Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English.

David Cross

#18. I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

Joan Kirner

#19. I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Joan Kirner

#20. Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Joan Kirner

#21. I opened my mouth to ask him what our excursion meant to him. Then I wondered if I really wanted to know, because once you have knowledge, there's no going back.

Kate Perry

#22. I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

Miranda July

#23. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Joan Kirner

#24. The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits.

George R R Martin

#25. To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'

Joan Kirner

#26. Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.

Joan Kirner

#27. Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

Joan Kirner

#28. A party, isn't party without an a entertainment!

Deyth Banger