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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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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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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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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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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Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
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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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I do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.
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The joint development and cross-licensing agreement ... let's us avoid quibbling about technical details and move forward quickly.
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Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
