- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman Quotes
On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.
This set touches on the extra scrutiny women face in performance careers and the emotional stakes of being noticed romantically. For related identity-focused lines, see I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an uncle I no longer talk to because of a joke I made about my grandmother, who is his mother. He's an 80-year-old man upset about a woman who died 15 years ago.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that's probably because I'm an ancient creature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.
- Health Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020