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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• Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Women
  • Children
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• 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.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Really

• Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Women
  • Age
  • Discrimination

• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Hair
  • Writer
  • Just

• Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• You can't get dressed without good hair.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Dressed

• 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.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Me
  • Wish

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• Honestly, what I think set everything off is when I cut my hair off when I was 16 and dyed it blue. After that, I just felt so free and wanted to experiment with my look.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Blue

• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Hair

• I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee.' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Great

• We all must make hatemongers unwelcome in our towns and communities. And we must stand by the heroes in this struggle, the police and county prosecutors who stand up to the extremists.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Police

• I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Women
  • Hair