- Car
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I'm comfortable in it, I feel confident.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
- Criminality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.
- Expenditure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
- Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not so long ago, my feminist education taught me to ask the question, 'Is the gaze male?' The answer, apparently, is yes, which is why so many movies and television shows are about men and not women.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth?
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020