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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
- Nov 07, 2020
But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men don't hear women.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
- Lens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.
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- Nov 07, 2020