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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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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 can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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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.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet. (p. 267)
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I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
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Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
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We shouldn't come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.
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When women succeed, America succeeds.
