Sandra Bullock Quotes
I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.
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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.
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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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.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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Oftentimes, as women and women of color, we are put as supporting characters in other people's narratives. With 'Jessica James', she is the star of her own narrative.
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
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You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.
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As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.
