Christine Pelosi Quotes
When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
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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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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
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Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.
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With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.
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Once in the 1930s, the Inland Revenue did an investigation into Yeats's tax returns because they could not believe someone so famous could have such small sales. One should never allow oneself to be discouraged by small sales. As Pinter says, I stuck to my guns.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
