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.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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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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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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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.
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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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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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Thinking Slayer's music is not my thing doesn't mean I don't respect the band for what they are and what they've done. I just won't play it. As I can imagine they won't listen to mine either, for that matter.
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We cannot talk with animals as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.
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I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.
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Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
