Susan Estrich Quotes
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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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've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
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The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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Men don't hear women.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
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When the candles are out all women are fair.
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The argument that it is difficult to find women is complete BS. Any bank will tell you that the No. 1 employee they lose the most money on is the mid-tier female they bring on when they are 22 who leaves in her mid to late 30s. These are women they spend a ton of money training, and a ton of money attracting and hiring. And then they lose them. And they lose them for many reasons. They're going to other sectors, other industries. So for us in the financial-services world to say we can't find women is ridiculous. They are out there. We've done it here at Anthemis.
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When I was 12, my brother and I moved back to Honolulu to live with our mother. Hawaii felt like another universe, and reflecting on it, I am struck by how much more open and accepting it was.
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If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
