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

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Important
  • Women
  • Economy

• 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

• Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • You
  • Know

• I like women with style to wear my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Women
  • Style
  • Shoes

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Say
  • Feminist

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

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

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Women
  • Performances
  • Athletes

• Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • American
  • Fun

• I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Nature

• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Political

• Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • College
  • Psychology

• Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

  

  Jane Addams
  • Women

• Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • People

• [Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Help

• I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Never

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  Evan Esar
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