- Great
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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
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never okay to put other women down.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020