Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
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Men don't hear women.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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One of women's greatest values is compassion.
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When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
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What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
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Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
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The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.
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We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
