Samina Baig Quotes
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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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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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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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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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.
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I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
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Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god.
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Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.
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Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
