- Church
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all the roles that I've gotten were stereotypical, but in Korea, especially for TV, it's a bit limited for women in their twenties and thirties. There aren't enough female roles.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The character of Samantha Jones proved that women over the age of 40 could be magnificently sexy and attractive to men of all ages.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a sucker for glamorous women in shoulderpads eating fancy things like eggs benedict.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm carrying the sport of women's boxing and I am the best woman fighter and that's my role.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take the toughest challenges and fight against the best women. With that attitude, I will always be doing something big. I'm light-years ahead of my time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody kept saying I wasn't going to get any fights. And they wouldn't put me on TV and they don't respect women's boxing. But I also turned professional with two Olympic gold medals and that's something that no other American boxer has ever done. With that, I've been getting a lot of respect.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fighting against undefeated IBF 154-pound champion Marie-Eve Dicaire continues my quest to fight the very best in women's boxing.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?'
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.
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- Nov 07, 2020