- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.
- Good Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
- Sight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
- Constraints
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
- Message
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020