Janet Fitch Quotes

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

Janet Fitch

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• Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • First
  • Jump

• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Country
  • Now

• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• 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.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Live
  • Why

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• I like women with style to wear my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Women
  • Style
  • Shoes

• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Really

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Understand

• I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Thought
  • Looking

• The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • God
  • Words

• I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Present
  • Butterfly

• There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

  

  Peter Guber
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Women