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'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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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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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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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 moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
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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 like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.
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I saw the head of NOW - National Organization of Women - saying that women still only make 70 cents on the dollar to every man. I'm not sure I'm going to believe that. Women are notoriously bad at math.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
