Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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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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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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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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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
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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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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
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Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
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There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
