- 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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like women bond with other women in this nonverbal way, where they take on each other's gestures. You start dressing more like each other, you eat the same food... It's a way of expressing regard: I want to be like you. Which is flattering, but if you view it another way, terrifying.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020