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.

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

  

  Manju Warrier
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• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team -or our society -could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• It is particularly challenging for women who are trying to stay competitive in a real estate market where men really don't have the same degree of safety concerns.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
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• It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

  

  Bertrand Russell
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• I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

  

  Doug Liman
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• 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
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  • Lives