Jessica Valenti Quotes
There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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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.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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Women know how to scare other women.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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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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I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.
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Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.
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When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
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Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
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Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women's movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband's career.
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There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.
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There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.
