Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
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There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
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I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.
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Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.
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The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.
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Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don't really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that's not fair.
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There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.
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I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.
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There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.
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I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
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Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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He Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
