Clementine Ford (Clementine Shepherd Ford) Quotes
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.Clementine Ford
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
Gavin DeGraw -
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
Florence Kelley -
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland -
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
Jack Nicholson -
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith -
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
Harriet Harman
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
Narciso Rodriguez -
When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
D. A. Pennebaker -
Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
Indra Nooyi -
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
Victoria Principal -
So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
Gayle Forman -
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
Kate Fox
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He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.
Gary McCord -
I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
Nancy Keenan -
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
Irina Shayk -
That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
Barbara Castle -
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
Garry Kasparov -
No one knows what women want!
Ian Somerhalder
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Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
Warren Farrell -
I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
Tom Stoppard -
Sometimes I’m misunderstood and it’s hard to come by that. My life has been full of excitement. I’ve done pretty much what I wanted to do. I came from the Midwest, from South Dakota, and I came up the hard way. We lived on a farm; we didn’t even have electricity or running water if you know what I mean. People don’t know what that life is like.
Mamie Van Doren -
What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.
Doug McClure -
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.
Clementine Ford