Eleanor Smeal Quotes
Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.
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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.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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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 learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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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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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.
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Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.
