- Life
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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
- Those
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.
- Developing World
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
- Contemplative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
No. I'm not. Nor have I ever been, although I know there are people who thought I was. I do have a lot of women friends, but none of them is gay, nor have they ever been.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, I was up north with friends and, after dinner, one lady who was at the table said, 'Would you sing for me?' and I went 'Well, sure.' And the other women are looking and going, 'You never sing for us.' Well, you never ask me.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020