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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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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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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I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?'
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Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.
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Overall, I'm not upset at the press.
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I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
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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.
