- Money
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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don't even have a savings account. It's not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women care about a wide range of issues - climate change, social justice. What the Green Party tries to do is apply gender analysis to a whole lot of questions that people might not think of as women's issues. For instance, women in developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate crisis.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, because they always come in with their little Chihuahuas and the guys come in with their Golden Retrievers.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020