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 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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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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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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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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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 because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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If we can't support a woman while she is giving life, then we don't support women.
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Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.
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I'm a retired media executive.
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I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
