Emma McLaughlin Quotes
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.
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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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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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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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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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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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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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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
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The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
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There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
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We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.
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I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
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You can be spontaneous in another way because you don’t have the time pressures. If you have a lot of time, you can fool around of stuff. If we have time pressures, it’s like back-to-back work. When you have more time, you can experiment a little bit more. That’s a very good thing.
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Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.
