Lee Grant Quotes
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
Gavin DeGraw -
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
Rachel Hunter -
Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.
Ofra Strauss -
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
Octavia Spencer -
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.
Vanessa Ferlito -
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
Irvine Welsh
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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.
Fatema Mernissi -
I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
Patricia Riggen -
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
Garrett Hedlund -
There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
Pat Benatar -
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
Gail Collins -
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
Adam Cohen
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
Kate Atkinson -
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.
Naveen Jain -
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai -
I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
Patricia Riggen -
If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
Candace Bushnell
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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.
Billie Lourd -
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is...
Alice Neel -
When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'
Marne Levine -
The professionals must set a good example.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White -
Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.
Lee Grant