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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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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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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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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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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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
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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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Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'
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[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing.
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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.
