Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.Elizabeth Janeway
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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?'
Gail Sheehy -
The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
Venus Williams -
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman -
I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
Dana Perino -
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Felix Frankfurter -
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
Idina Menzel -
There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
Gaby Hoffmann -
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai -
I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
Adam Hughes -
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.
Kate Winslet
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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
Ralph Lauren -
Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
Yancy Butler -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
Venus Williams -
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Barry McGee -
Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
Indra Nooyi
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I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.
Jimmy Carter -
I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
George Vecsey -
Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
Leslie Mann -
You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.
Miguel Nicolelis -
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
Eric Weiner -
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway