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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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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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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Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would never give up London. It's a true world city, with an energy that's unique.
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At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
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Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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I believe in women, especially thinking women.
