- 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
- Dividing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.'
- Fonda
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020