Marianne Williamson Quotes
Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
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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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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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Women know how to scare other women.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
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I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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The NYPD, they're the finest in the world.
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I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.
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I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
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Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.
