- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent more nights with Roberto Carlos than all of the women I have been married to put together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
- Nov 07, 2020