Agnes Macphail Quotes
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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.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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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.
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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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.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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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.
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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 think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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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 women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
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We are multiplicities, and none of us live single-identity lives.
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My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
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The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.
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I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
