Alana de la Garza Quotes
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are... they do not provide mammograms. They are the middleman, or middle woman, if you will.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.
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The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.
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The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
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The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from a state party convention, which shows you something that is different than what a caucus shows you.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero.
