Women Quotes
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The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.
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I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.
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There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.
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If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause it is impossible to know.
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Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.
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You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.
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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
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One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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The perfect woman, you see is a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who uses her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.
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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
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Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.
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I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.
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Beatles, women and children first!
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The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
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I believe that education offers the fastest route to economic mobility. I grew up with a family of strong, accomplished, and educated women. I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior. There was never a question that I'd go to college. In fact, I was the last person in my family to get a master's degree, so that tells you I'm actually the underachiever!
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It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.
