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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability to run longer distances. It was finally added after much campaigning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020