Women Quotes
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I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.
Lili Taylor
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I say to the women out there, remember how difficult it was for women like Justice O'Connor starting out. Even though she graduated with top grades, she had to take a job as a legal secretary. Remember how far we have come.
Maryanne Trump Barry
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A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
Tamsin Greig
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Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Jessica Savitch
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Virginia Woolf
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The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.
Debbie Allen
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
Betty Williams
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This year let's all come together, Congress, the White House, businesses from Wall Street to Main Street, to give every woman the opportunity she deserves, because I believe when women succeed, America succeeds.
Barack Obama
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
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When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
Camille Paglia
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The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.
Derek Bok
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The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.
Melanie Mayron
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I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.
Jodie Evans
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The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different.
Liz Trotta
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The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.
Marianne Williamson
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Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.
Martina McBride
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You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
Joanna Lumley
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The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women
Sandra Bullock
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It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.
Aileen Lee
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When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
Bella Abzug
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Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently. And while many will argue that women will only be allowed into combat arms units under the same requirements as their male counterparts, count me as skeptical.
Pete Hegseth
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Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
James Hillman
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'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.
Abi Morgan