Tammy Duckworth Quotes
When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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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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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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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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It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
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I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
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I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.
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There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
