Jodie Comer Quotes

I think, in history, we often see a false representation of women. The men are always the successors and, supposedly, of their own merit, which I don't believe to be to true.

Jodie Comer

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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

Wanda Sykes
- Family
- History
- Mother
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- History
- Taken
- Judge
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

Karin Slaughter
- Women
- Man
- Hero
I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

Gail Sheehy
- People
- Up
- Women
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- People
- Good
- American
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers
- History
- Reality
- Man