Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.

Elizabeth Wein

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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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Coffee

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Lives

• Coffee is a language in itself.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Language
  • Coffee
  • Itself

• Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Me
  • Wish

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Special

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • You
  • Start

• I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Want
  • Powerful

• I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Women

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Women
  • Proud
  • Like

• Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Dark

• Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Osaka, etc., though not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Cf. missile.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Women
  • Children
  • High

• Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Life
  • Children
  • Fear

• Fate loves the fearless.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Fate
  • Fearless

• The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Life
  • Past
  • Happiness

• Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Women
  • Coffee
  • Civilized