Noelle Stevenson Quotes
Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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If I did have a six-pack to show and a great waistline to put out there to the universe or beautiful muscular legs, then I would not have to pout. The only thing I have going for me is a jawline.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.
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Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.
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I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it God only knows what I'd be without you…
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This is one of the hardest industries to be married.
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Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
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The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
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Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.
