Adele Logan Alexander Quotes
It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's contributions have been less important than men's contributions because women are usually less public people.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
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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.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.
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BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.
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Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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The new Khaled is enjoying life, man. Because you know what, nobody is going to congratulate you on what you really deserve.
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It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's contributions have been less important than men's contributions because women are usually less public people.
