Ann Oakley Quotes
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.
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There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
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There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
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There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
