Emma Ishta Quotes

I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

Emma Ishta

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• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Good
  • High
  • Strong

• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
  • Fantasies

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • She
  • Happy

• Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Help
  • Happy
  • Strong

• I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Strong

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Dance

• Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Think

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• 'When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.', (Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676). 'All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?', (Burton).

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • World
  • Men
  • Home

• The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself.

  

  Gaurav Dagaonkar
  • Reflection
  • Poet
  • Mirrors

• It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Puppy

• I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

  

  Emma Ishta
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Intelligent