Anthony Burgess Quotes
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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.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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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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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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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.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
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When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.
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I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.
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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
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I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.
