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
great loving people personal
I think people should be who they are. If someone is a great mother, or a great personal friend to their friends and just a loving person, that's all they should be, if that's what they want to be, 'cause it's genuine.
asks neck
At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'
call mama mom t
I'm the wife. I'm the mom. I'm the friend. And, you know, my friends call me 'Mama T,' or 'Dr. T,' and that's, guess, what I am - the Mama T and the Dr. T. That's who I am.
bad catholic good
I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.
surprise
I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.
clothes water generator
Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.
smart men voice
My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. My only hope is that, one day soon, women who have all earned the right to their opinions -- instead of being called 'opinionated' will be called smart and well-informed, just like men.
views abortion stopping
I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.
mama call-me
You can call me Mama T anytime.
roots bird tree
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
lonely believe land
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.
east-africa grew dictatorship
I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.
weight johannesburg young
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.
real ideas political
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.