| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12492 |
| QUOTATION: | Nobody can resist a ripe idea. The idea today is change. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Tansu Ciller (b. 1946), Turkish politician. As quoted in the New York Times, p. 4 (July 3, 1993).
Upon being elected the first woman Prime Minister in the history of Turkey. Thirty years earlier, she had married and not only refused to take her husband’s name but persuaded him to take hers. |
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