Anna Ford Quotes

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Anna Ford

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Book
  • History

• 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

• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• 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

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Found
  • Earn

• In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Some

• We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Women
  • Love

• I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Women
  • Right

• I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Designer
  • Meeting

• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• What I look for in a role is a woman who is important - not on the sidelines, not arm candy: women who do important things.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Important
  • Women
  • Candy

• Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Women
  • Advocates
  • Degraded

• You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Revolution

• I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • People

• What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Reality
  • Happiness
  • Anger

• Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

  

  Anna Ford
  • Women
  • Television
  • Plain