- Life
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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
- Nov 07, 2020
In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don't have what it takes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
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- Nov 07, 2020