Frances O'Grady Quotes
My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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My hero is Roger Federer.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
