Ann Rule Quotes
I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
H. Robert Horvitz
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
Katha Pollitt
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
Nancy Pelosi
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
Halsey
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
Eden Sher
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Laila Ali
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
Manolo Blahnik
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
Fat Joe
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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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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
Octavia Spencer
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
Nancy Greene
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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.
Wangari Maathai
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
Imelda May
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
Narciso Rodriguez
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
Sally Kirkland
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
Yani Tseng
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
Zoe Lister-Jones
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
Laura Prepon
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Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.
M. R. DeHaan
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
Ann Rule