William Hazlitt Quotes

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

William Hazlitt

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Women
  • Want
  • Beautiful

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• 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

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

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Me
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Women
  • She
  • High

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Women
  • Age
  • Discrimination

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

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

  

  Imelda May
  • Women
  • Think
  • Like

• I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

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

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Women
  • You
  • Forget

• I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Women
  • American
  • Wind

• I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Women
  • Think
  • Grace

• There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Problems
  • Feminism

• You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Society
  • You
  • Know

• Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Responsibility
  • Blessed
  • Answers

• Fragrance is, to me, something very personal; because it is something you wear every day, it should represent you and be an extension of your style.

  

  Frida Gustavsson
  • Style

• The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Women
  • Break
  • Modesty