- Me
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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
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always told me that we won't get you married until you are independent. Women have always been celebrated in my house.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being an actor so much because, as a person, I would be conscious about pimples and weight because I love vanity, and I own up to it. I have been like that since I was a child, but where my characters are concerned, they are such confident women that I love celebrating my flaws on screen.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to change the sport for the better. I want to do a lot for women's tennis.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked men better than women.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strong women only marry weak men.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
- Condition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I had a very realistic, probably pessimistic outlook at the beginning of my career post-graduation of drama school. In general, I would see black women, usually older, playing a certain archetype on procedural shows. I thought, 'Okay, that's what I have to look forward to.'
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020