Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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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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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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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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Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.
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I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
