Oprah Winfrey Quotes
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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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.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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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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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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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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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
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In general, the more entrepreneurs we have, the better off we will be because the economy is driven by small businesses and creative ideas... I'm really excited about what the future holds for women entrepreneurship and to be a small part of that by helping Kim Kardashian and Jessica Alba start their businesses.
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Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.
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I grew up loving to go to Price Club, and later Costco, with my parents.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
