Clare Balding Quotes

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

Clare Balding

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• Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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  • Where
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• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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  • Think
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• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • American
  • Fun

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Women
  • You
  • Living

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.

  

  Zendaya
  • Women
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• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Centuries
  • Kicking

• We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Society
  • Free

• Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Success

• I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

  

  John Eaton
  • Live

• My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Life
  • Health
  • Depression

• I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Women