Women Quotes
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It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.
Zainab Salbi
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I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.
Vandana Shiva
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All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't even have a personality completely become different human beings because of the training.
Jennifer Coolidge
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Today’s women are archaic in appearance. I want to help them coincide with their time.
Andre Courreges
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Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
Tony Abbott
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.
Vera Brittain
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Physically, women have some challenges in the kitchen, like lifting heavy pots on and off the stove. You learn to adapt; you learn to find a way. But the biggest challenge for women in this industry is how to balance a family with such a demanding career.
Lidia Bastianich
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From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
Zainab Salbi
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.
Erwin Chargaff
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While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
Carre Otis
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The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.
Nan Goldin
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Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.
Rana el Kaliouby
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Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help. We are superior by nature. The black or white woman needn't worry in life because the world is ruled by the white man.
Muhammad Ali
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In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.
Shakira
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In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Women in general have to think about certain things that men don't - like being safe in the street at night or something.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Marilyn Hacker
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The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.
Jennifer Saunders
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Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
Eric Reed Boucher
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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
Bill Mollison
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams
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My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
Elinor Lipman