Mary Beard Quotes
I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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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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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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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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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.
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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.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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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.
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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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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.
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I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.
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I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.
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The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.
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I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.
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I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.
