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AwesOmE AChIEvEmeNts

• The adoration shown to her from a vast portion of New Zealand’s
population of five million is so fervent that it’s been given a name:
Jacindamania.
• When Trump called her with condolences over Christchurch, he asked
what the US could provide to help. She told him, “Sympathy and love for
all Muslim communities.”
• When Ardern gave birth while serving as the head of a country, she was
only the second person to do so in recorded history. (Decades earlier,
Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto did it twice.)

QuOtABLEs
“Today is a new beginning . The status quo is not good enough and we will not
settle for it .”
“[New Zealand is] small, and our contribution to the global emissions profile is
even smaller, but we are surrounded by island nations who will feel the brunt of
climate change acutely . I see ourselves as having a responsibility to demonstrate
that we can and we will lead the charge .”
“Very little of what I have done has been deliberate . It’s intuitive .”

“I am not the first woman to multitask . I am not the first woman to work and
have a baby—there are many women who have done this before .”

17 Jacinda Ardern