Ann Scott Quotes
I's only the things you don't do that you end up regretting: the women not courted, the paintings not painted, the paths not taken.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
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Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs. Or if the guy doesn't say anything when you walk out with a new top and the guy has no idea why you're mad at him. So of course, women are complicated.
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With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
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I'm a straight guy and I date women, but I get on really well with gay guys. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality. The weirdest thing for me is when straight guys get really freaked out by gay guys. It's almost like they're insecure in their own sexuality. For me, I can be in a room full of gay men and have fun.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
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My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
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I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.
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I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.
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The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.
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We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between the war in Iraq and the current war in Afghanistan. The fact that I'm sitting here making sure that we continue to put out the best young Marines is just a matter of it being 2011.
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Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.
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In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.
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We should not wait any longer to ensure that women get the pay they deserve. I will keep fighting for this until we achieve equality. I am very thankful for all those who are already advocating for equal pay, and I hope others will join me in this fight.
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I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.
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It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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I's only the things you don't do that you end up regretting: the women not courted, the paintings not painted, the paths not taken.
