Emile Zola Quotes
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.
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There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.
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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
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A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport. You have to have a job or go to uni or do three sports instead of one, you have to be a standout.
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No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
