Emma Bonino Quotes

• I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

  Emma Bonino

  Feminine, Characteristics, Flexibility

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• I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

  Emma Bonino

  Mean, Rights, Perspective

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• A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

  Emma Bonino

  Mom, Mother, Wife

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• Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

  Emma Bonino

  Creative, Sometimes, Reason

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• I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

  Emma Bonino

  Long, Ministers, Locals

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• I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Support, Groups

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• Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

  Emma Bonino

  Movement, Factory Workers, Factories

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• My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

  Emma Bonino

  Mother, Father, School

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• I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

  Emma Bonino

  Crazy, Tragedy, Faces

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• The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

  Emma Bonino

  Facts, Prevailing, Remains

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• I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

  Emma Bonino

  Way, Restless, Found

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• Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

  Emma Bonino

  Issues, Macedonia, Relation

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• The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

  Emma Bonino

  Should Have, Different, Purpose

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• I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Should Have, Worried

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• I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.

  Emma Bonino

  Mets, Radical

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• My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

  Emma Bonino

  Mother, Church

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• Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

  Emma Bonino

  Community, Albania, Partners

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• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  Emma Bonino

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

  Emma Bonino

  Divorce, Issues, Abortion

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• I felt that what is personal is political.

  Emma Bonino

  Political, Felt

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• I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

  Emma Bonino

  Thinking, Issues, Liberty

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• My family had liberal positions.

  Emma Bonino

  My Family, Position

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• I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

  Emma Bonino

  Issues, Different, Way

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• Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

  Emma Bonino

  Men, Different, Aspect

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• The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

  Emma Bonino

  Two, Political, Individualism

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