Orson Scott Card Quotes
Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
Quotes to Explore
-
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
-
All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
-
But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
-
When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
-
I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
-
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
-
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
-
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
-
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
-
I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
-
In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
-
The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
-
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
-
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
-
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
-
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
-
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.
-
There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
-
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
-
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
-
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
-
I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother. So basically what I'm trying to tell my kids is just, it's their mother's fault and it's not my fault.
-
And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]
-
Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
