Judith Tarr Quotes

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

Judith Tarr

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• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• 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

• When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Think
  • Black

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Why
  • Rule

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eating

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Thing

• I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Children

• I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Women
  • Walk
  • Stores

• We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Women
  • Community

• For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Future
  • Matter
  • Questions

• At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Science
  • Engineering

• We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Life
  • Women
  • Passive

• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • You
  • Meet

• It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Pride
  • Easy
  • Burden

• I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

  

  Lee Grant

• I think the word 'diverse' is a cancerous word because it's life. It's a PC way of saying 'non-white,' and it ultimately suggests that white is the standard.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Life

• Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Women
  • Matter
  • Lives