Usher Quotes
I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
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My mom has been my support system from day one. Admiring the type of person she is gives me a sense of what to look for in my ideal cheerleader when the time comes.
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Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
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Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.
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Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
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Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.
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We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.
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I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.
