Willa Cather Quotes

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Job
  • Community

• It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Together

• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Me
  • Respect

• I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Women
  • Want
  • Know

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Think

• I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

  

  Imelda May
  • Women
  • Think
  • Like

• I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Women
  • Art

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• Padmasree Warrior has been on all the lists. The most powerful women in tech. The most powerful women in the world.

  

  Emily Chang
  • World
  • Women
  • Powerful

• There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Safety
  • March

• Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Boy
  • Identity
  • Wrestling

• The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

  

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

• The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • True

• All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Women
  • Brave
  • Hector