Lauren Greenfield Quotes
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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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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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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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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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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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 don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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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 spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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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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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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In a government that has lost all shame, that fears its own shadow, the majority tramples the minority, legislation is racist and the democratic space is under constant threat.
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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this."
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I focus on a lot of women's issues.
