Virginia Woolf Quotes
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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It goes without saying that it's important to vote.
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I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
