Teresa Heinz
Teresa Heinz
Teresa Heinz Kerry, also known as Teresa Heinz, née Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira, is a Mozambican–born American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the widow of former U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III, and the wife of current U.S. Secretary of State and former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth5 October 1938
CountryUnited States of America
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My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
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There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.
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I learned something then, and I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anyone may be noticing and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't more required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America, the true patriots are those who dare speak truth to power.
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I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.
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As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
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Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.
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If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.
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It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.
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When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.