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 had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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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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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
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She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
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There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.
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Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
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The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
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Successful women don't sleep until noon.
