„I have to stand up for myself… I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.“

— Carly Fiorina

David Webb Show http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/05/ohio-male-rnc-member-calls-carly-fiorina-hot-babe/ (5 August 2015).
2010s, 2015, David Webb Show (August 2015)

Last update May 22, 2020.

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American corporate executive and politician 1954

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„If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone.“

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„Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
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„Now we stand face to face—but who can tell
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„I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.“

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„Being humbled, we learn to call upon his strength which alone makes us stand up under such a load of afflictions.“

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