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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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
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As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.
