Candace Bushnell Quotes
The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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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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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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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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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.
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It's not important which link you are in the chain of evangelism, just be sure you're not the missing link.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
