Florence Ellinwood Allen Quotes
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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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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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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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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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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Our culture often demeans and devalues the work, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in part, why beauty culture is dismissed as unimportant and frivolous.
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I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life. The most beautiful women - Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Hutton, Ali MacGraw - all embraced the aging process.
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What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.
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Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.
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You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
