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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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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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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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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The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.
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I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.
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I love purple because my name is Amethyst.
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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.
