- Experience
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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
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are problem solvers, and often we don't get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who's loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That's not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I went to school with, in those days, it was still the track of becoming a teacher, becoming a nurse. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I didn't go down that path.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a few different women who really enjoy fantasy football, but if it doesn't work out for them in a given season, it's not like they're going to go into a three-month funk. Whereas I know a lot of guys, myself included, who, if they have a bad season or if they lose a couple tough games, are just crushed.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of slavery and segregation, to say nothing of the household drudgery and workplace discrimination suffered by women.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020