Barbara Taylor Bradford Quotes
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.
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We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
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Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.
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It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.
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Lemaitre has been one of my inspirations ever since I started making music.
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Successful women don't sleep until noon.
