Jeannette Rankin Quotes
We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
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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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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
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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.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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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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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
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If the home is good, all will be good.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
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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 have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie's only two hours long. My hat's off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I'm sitting here is because of modern medicine.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
