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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I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother's generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.
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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.
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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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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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My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
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You can call me Mama T anytime.
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My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.
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I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.
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I think a man and a woman, on a whole array of issues, including raising children, have differences, and then you work them through.
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I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.
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I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.
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I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.