Emmeline B. Wells Quotes
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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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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O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.
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The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy.
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Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
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With the... symbolic memory we spell out the future-not one but many futures, which we weigh one against another.
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I believe in women, especially thinking women.
