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.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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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.
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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%!
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When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
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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.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.
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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.
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
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No one knows what women want!
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I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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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.
