- Difficult
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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
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
- Be Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the Formula 1 teams that Dare To Be Different has come into contact with - Ferrari, McLaren, Force India, Williams - they're all very proactive in supporting us. They allow us to contact their female staff members and they're very conscious of wanting to help increase their percentage of women in the industry.
- Different Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, a women's only championship is not going to get more females into motorsport as a whole.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of myself as a role model, but I've had so many messages from girls, women, mothers saying I was an inspiration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I decided to stop racing, I really wanted to give something back to the sport and for me it was always going to be about inspiring young girls and women.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of my driver test. So many people were waiting for me to test and fail, so they could say that women would never be able to race in F1. I always view my time in F1 as before and after the test. Beforehand, I could sense everybody asking, ‘What's she doing in the F1 paddock? Is she good enough?' After my test, that attitude changed.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are much more egotistical. But that means women can accept criticism and improve easier than men can.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
- Emancipate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transforming themselves into working women, Clara Driscoll enters the male field of stained glass artistry and builds a lively, multi-national, multi-class women's department within Tiffany Studios.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020