Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
From Madeleine Albright
I'm a problem-solver.
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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