Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
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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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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
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Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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Women have no government.
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'I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it's a political system meant on - bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.' 10
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The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.
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There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.
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In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.
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Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.
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We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between the war in Iraq and the current war in Afghanistan. The fact that I'm sitting here making sure that we continue to put out the best young Marines is just a matter of it being 2011.
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I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
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Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
