Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes
Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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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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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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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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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
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That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
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Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
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I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
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Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
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You have to keep your eyes wide open and your head high and realize that you are going to be OK. I do this with work and with being a mom - I'm a true believer that it's OK to fail, and that there is power in getting back up on the horse.
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There's room for Spike Lee's movies; there's room for Tyler Perry's movies. There's room for classics with an all black cast. There's room for all of it as long as we don't try to make any one piece define us as a race.
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Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
