Dee Dee Myers Quotes
Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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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 feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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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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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
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The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
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There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
