- Men
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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
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm as flawed as the next person. But maybe I inspire women because I'm an example that you should never assume that where you are in life or what you're doing is going to remain exactly as it is forever.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.
- Confining
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020