Women Quotes
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The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.
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Of course, women can bring to the work of law-making, as their special share, their experience and knowledge of domestic and social questions.
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I'm a big supporter of women doing anything they want to do!
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The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
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Women, we're all coming together.
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I'm so proud of the community we've been able to bring together, and the notion of women making the first move is no longer taboo; it's no longer a scarlet letter to have a voice.
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Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.
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I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
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My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.
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Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.
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Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.
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“One should honour women and not insult anyone. If there was”
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I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.
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Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.
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They the royal – hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.
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I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?
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For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
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When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss it as a trans issue that trans women should speak out against. You should be engaged in the dialogue, discourse, and activism that challenges the very fibers of your movement.
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It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.
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The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
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Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.
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I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.
