Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.
Hazel HawkeI don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.
Hazel HawkeWomen who have had more opportunity to develop their own strengths and talents, or who are quite satisfied and content in a traditional role, unfortunately don't always understand that many women aren't satisfied or content.
Hazel HawkeI have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.
Hazel HawkeBeautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.
Hazel Hawke