Lily James Quotes
It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
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I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
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I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
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One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
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My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.
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Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.
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After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.
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In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.
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What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.
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It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'
