Eleanor Smeal Quotes
In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.
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Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
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You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.
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We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.
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The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.
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In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.
