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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think women should be paid the same as men. That's for sure. But what would you say to a woman coming in after you've been in the job for 15 years when they've done absolutely nothing to earn it? I don't think that's right.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was bisexual for a long time. I flitted between men and women quite a lot between the ages of 17 and 26.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have admiration for beautiful women.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.
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- Nov 07, 2020