Christine de Pizan Quotes
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.
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I want people to realize that they can dream big.
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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The motto of feminists: 'There is never an excuse for hitting a woman.' Shouldn’t it be, 'There is never an excuse for hitting.'?
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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There are a lot of good actresses out there.
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I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.
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Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
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Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
