- Children
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.
- Compilation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women bring a different perspective to the table, and lawmaking is a compilation of diverse ideas and views and perspective. And when you don't have that, you end up making bad laws.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that women like to use different parts of their brain and their hands. And I think that cooking allows you to do that.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020