- Church
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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
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in the press of the civil rights movement is truncated with the briefest of histories of men like Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, or John Lewis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
While it is important that black women begin to receive the accolades and assistance they are due from the Democratic Party, they cannot be expected to continue to save white people from the poor choices they make - based not on moral values but party affiliation.
- Plays
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
- Both Men And Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020