- Dancing
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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
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
- College Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.
- American Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020