Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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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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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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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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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.
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I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.
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It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
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Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.
