- Men
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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 think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really like women, and I like men, and I like children, and I like eating, and I like doing everything.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.
- Early Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020