Anand Giridharadas Quotes
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
Gavin DeGraw
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Manju Warrier
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
Kate Clinton
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Gary Oldman
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Laila Ali
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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
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
Venus Williams
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
Natalie Dormer
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
Natasha Leggero
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I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
Emily Mortimer
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Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
Madeleine Albright
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Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
David Cassidy
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Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.
Anand Giridharadas
