Anand Giridharadas Quotes
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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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.
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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.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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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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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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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.
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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.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.
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I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.
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It was the eyes that did it. timid giggle I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine.
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There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.
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Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.
