Karen Kijewski Quotes
Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I signed this girl's arm. And the next day, a family member shot me an email, and it was a link to this girl who had my signature tattooed on her arm. I was like, 'Man, that's dedication. I'm sorry you did that.'
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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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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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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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.'
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Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
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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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I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I love comedians. They're my community.
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I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.
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A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
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Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
