Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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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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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.
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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don't help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they're likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they're in grade school.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
