Jeannette Rankin Quotes

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Jeannette Rankin

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• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• 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 a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Man
  • Find

• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Women
  • American
  • Wind

• Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• 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.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Men are separated by so many petty things.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Men
  • Things
  • Petty

• What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Community

• There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Men
  • Together
  • Commitment

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• I'm not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women - I mean, obviously, your first thing is, 'What do you want your guy to look like?' And I'm not the tall, dark, handsome guy.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Dark

• When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Men
  • Women
  • Human Beings

• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Country
  • Proud

• Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Trivial Pursuit

• Wake up people! If you are gay and living in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, what the fuck else are you gonna do? You're gonna join the musical theatre. That's all you got in Pigeon Forge - there's no 'bear' bar! This is it. Suit up.....put the wings on!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • People
  • Up
  • Gay

• Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • Men
  • Women