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Barbara Gardner Proctor Quotes

1932–2018 United States

Barbara Juanita Gardner Proctor (November 30, 1932 – December 19, 2018) was an American advertising executive. In 1970 she founded Proctor and Gardner Advertising, Inc.

United States
Businesswomen

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You can only do it when you don’t know you can’t do it.

Nothing is more absurd. Power is sexless.

I think blacks have a different acceptance of reality than white people. We're more realistic.

It was during the days of the black revolution.

When you buy inclusion and acceptance with conformity, the price bankrupts us spiritually. My greatest wealth is not financial. It is peace of mind.

I couldn't spell, which was a job handicap.

It became quite apparent to me that if I did not begin to control my own destiny, I was going to have it changed about every five minutes. So I took the time, energy, and expense to start my own agency.

The only thing you could train for if you were a black girl in the South, rural, poor, was a teacher or hairdresser, and a nurse.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Gardner Proctor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.