Charlotte Whitton Quotes
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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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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I've been able to reinvent myself and to keep an audience going at whatever age. This is terrific. I mean, how many actors get that chance?
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In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.
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If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.
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I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
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Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
