Elsa Peretti Quotes
I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.
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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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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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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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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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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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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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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.
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Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.
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There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
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Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.
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I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.
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We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.
