Helena Hunt > Quotes

“GREW UP on a Christmas tree farm, and I just remember having all this space to run around and be a crazy kid with tangled hair. And I think that really had a lot to do with me being able to have an imagination and become obsessed with, like, little stories I created in my head. Which then, later in life, led to songwriting.”
― Helena Hunt, Taylor Swift: In Her Own Words

“PEOPLE WHO HAVE known discrimination are bound to be sympathetic to discrimination encountered by others, because they understand how it feels to be exposed to disadvantageous treatment for reasons that have nothing to do with one’s ability, or the contributions one can make to society.”
― Helena Hunt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words

“WHAT DID SHE mean by be a lady? Well, she didn’t mean somebody who serves tea at four in the afternoon. What she meant was, a lady doesn’t waste time on unproductive emotions. A lady doesn’t snap back in anger. She isn’t envious. She is a lady—that is, if an unkind word is spoken, it’s as though she didn’t hear it.”
― Helena Hunt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words

“Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy. They’re given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it will probably be to the detriment of your choices.”
― Helena Hunt, Jeff Bezos: In His Own Words