Christina Stead Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
Gabrielle Giffords -
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 -
I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
Eddie Marsan -
When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'
Gail Kelly -
You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
Zendaya -
Women are amazing lovers.
Omari Hardwick
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
Kate Fox -
One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
Nancy Roman -
All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
Quentin Bryce -
At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
Nancy Roman -
What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.
Wendell Berry -
We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.
Camille Paglia
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'I think Kathaos fears no divine forces.''Then he’s a brave man.''Oh, men make their own gods,' Yannul remarked. 'I have a god with a fat belly, and a house full of expensive women to attend his every need, and I call him Yannul the Lan in Five Years from This.'
Tanith Lee -
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
Warren Farrell -
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
Ellen Key -
We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.
Matt McGorry -
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
Mary Augusta Ward -
Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.'
Margo Price
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell -
With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
Patricia Cornwell -
I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.
Nellie McKay -
Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.
D. A. Carson -
Why doesn’t he drop down dead? Was he sent by God to worry women?
Christina Stead