Mary Beard Quotes
I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.
Mary Beard
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Taslima Nasrin
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
Natasha Leggero
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
Sally Ride
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
Mandy Moore
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
L. Neil Smith
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I really want to do what 'Veep' did. 'Veep,' in a very comical way, gave us a look inside the political machine, but I want to do it for the average American family.
Kenya Barris
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The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
Paul D. Boyer
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I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.
Mary Beard