Katherine Ryan Quotes
I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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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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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
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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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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.
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Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
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Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.
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Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.
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I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want.
