"I don’t remember people looking at John Howard and saying ‘Gee I wish he’d be warmer and cuddlier and more humorous and more engaging in his press conferences’, they looked at him and said ‘well he’s the bloke running the country’ … And I think the same standard should apply to me, I’m a woman running the country, I don’t ask people to come to the view that they want to have me round for dinner on Saturday night, that’s not what I’m here to do."
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in response to gender-based reporting on her political performance.
(I love the interplay between how beautifully Aussie she sounds with how eloquent and true what she’s saying is.)
- (Holy shit, there are some days I’m so proud this chick is running our country. How are you so smart? How?)
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