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1912–1992
Maria Kalaw Katigbak (born Maria Villanueva Kalaw; February 14, 1912 – December 10, 1992) was a Filipina politician, journalist and beauty queen. She served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1961 to 1967 during the Fifth Congress.
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Timing is the answer to many problems, the solution to many situations.
The human spirit sleeps only while the body is weak and hungry. Because it is God-given, the spirit cannot always be deadened and filled. The dental of the intellectual as the true leader of the people in favor of the peasant and the laborer has not been proved by history.
Who know but that, once his poverty and misery shall have been assuaged, the Chinese will return to the freedom of thought, speech, and enterprise that we have realized is necessary for personal happiness and national well-being.
Politics is messy. A woman is for her home where she has a lot of work to do. Some women are gifted to be in business, well and good. But a woman should stay as far away as possible from politics.
I am a positivist in the strict sense of the word. But I don't know if I really am in truth or in the sense that you ask. My father is an idealist, my mother a positivist. I think I share both.
Alignment and adjustment to God's plans for us is one of the basic requisites to happiness here in earth. This is especially necessary at a time when the Filipino woman, buoyed with a newfound sense of accomplishment, is tempted to forget what she was made for and how her talents can be used.
To condemn me because of an unrealistic law—which I am sure even the president has violated—is unfair. But to make this the issues of my candidacy and to overrule my clean record in the Senate is unjust.
A woman's life, like any one else's life, or, for that matter, like any enterprise or movement or activity or venture, improves with planning and programming. For woman, Nature herself made the plans and the program and duly prepared her physical body for it. Each plan and program has its own season in her life.