- 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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.
- Dearth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.
- Save
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- Nov 07, 2020
Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Left to the mercies of their communities, Muslim women and children remain in abusive households and face losing their financial security over issues like child maintenance and inheritance through the judgments of 'sharia' courts.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proportion of women attracted to the Islamic State is likely to be less than that in other militant organisations, such as the Tamil Tigers, the PKK, and the IRA. Undoubtedly, their roles within the Islamic State are much more confined by the rigid gender divisions under their ultraconservative rulings.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to express their opinions and to move freely within their communities.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020