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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
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being in the right mindset is a huge challenge for women, who often take an all-or-nothing approach to working out or eating well.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020