Agnes Macphail Quotes

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Agnes Macphail

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Food
  • Water

• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Me
  • Respect

• When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Different
  • Women
  • She

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Change
  • Need

• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hand

• And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Really

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Women
  • Society
  • Respond

• I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Country
  • Risk

• Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Choices

• I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

  

  Sam Walter Foss

• Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

  

  Sully Erna Godsmack
  • Music
  • Simplicity
  • Recipe

• I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

  

  Agnes Macphail
  • Women
  • Equality