Marya Mannes Quotes
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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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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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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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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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about 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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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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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.
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Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
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I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me.
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There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
