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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.
- Stick
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- Nov 07, 2020
We women have to stick together.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020