Amy Klobuchar Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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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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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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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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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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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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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Your life only gets better when you get better.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
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The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
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Women aren't sitting back after they win an election. They're leaning in!
