Women Quotes
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It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.
Eve Ensler
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With the Bond girls, they've always been these sexy but quite strong women, and that's a nice combination to design for.
Jenny Packham
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A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.
George Hamilton
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While there should be collective efforts to increase tech inclusion overall, the industry must work to specifically attract and retain women of color.
Kimberly Bryant
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I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even though it's mostly women in the room, they're not often - or they didn't used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key.
Eileen Pollack
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I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
Lynn Nottage
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Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.
Zazie Beetz
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
Jimmy Carter
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During my seven years in office, I was in love with seventeen million French women... I know this declaration will inspire irony and that English language readers will find it very French.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
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I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.
Caitlin Moran
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All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.
Conner Eldridge
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I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.
Anne Bancroft
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I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.
Anna Biller
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Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
Bill Clinton
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Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.
Kate Simon
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As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.
Caroline Ghosn
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As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
Katherine Heigl
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Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
Mary J. Blige
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The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.
Eve Hewson
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You can't say anything honest to women, they have minds like the FBI.
John Updike
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Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.
Peter Dinklage
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The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.
Ann Bancroft
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
Angela Duckworth
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Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.
Arlie Russell Hochschild