- Different Backgrounds
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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
The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.
- Hefner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
- Seeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.
- Loan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.
- Neighbor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020