Jessica Williams Quotes

Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: 'Parks and Recreation.' 'Veep's' incredible. I love 'Girls.'

Jessica Williams

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• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Food
  • Water

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Know
  • Heaven

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• I don't care about losses anymore.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Care
  • Anymore
  • Losses

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

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• 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

• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Work
  • Women
  • See

• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Women
  • Performances
  • Athletes

• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

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

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Leadership

• Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Best

• I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Girl

• My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Up
  • Why
  • Father

• Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Simple
  • Fool

• Some people are fighting much, much more important battles and much bigger battles, and if we get the chance to put a smile on their face for ten seconds, it's so worth it.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • People
  • Important
  • Fighting

• Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: 'Parks and Recreation.' 'Veep's' incredible. I love 'Girls.'

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Women