Alison Weir Quotes
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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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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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
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The run's the business end of a triathlon: it's where you win or lose the race. I like to get out very hard, make other people hurt sometimes, and other times leave it to the last kilometre and really win the race there.
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By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
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When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
