- Live
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read Deborah Brenner's book 'Women of the Vine' about women wine makers, I was impressed that many of the women she had interviewed had come to wine making later in life as a second career.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
In her book 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,' Sheryl Sandberg talks about the mentor/mentee relationship - and how it needs to be organic. She goes on to explain how important it is for men and women to step into mentoring roles. I would argue that not only is it important - but it's important far earlier than we think.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like people who enjoy life. I can't stand women who play games. I lose interest very quickly. I prefer up-front honesty.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like curvy women. But obviously, a sense of humour is the most important thing. And there's nothing sexier than a girl who is comfortable in her own skin.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Audiences like me doing action and comedy. I am a jovial person and have been so from childhood. I like to laugh my way through my work, and that attitude reflects in my roles. Even women hate me doing rona-dhona roles. So I don't do emotional films.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was shooting for a Telugu film at the Taj Mahal in Agra, and there were all these women and children pointing and screaming, 'Rowdy Rathore.' But I am not really 'Rowdy Rathore.' I am the guy who did the original version of 'Rowdy Rathore' six years ago.
- Michigan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a member of the Michigan Democratic Party, a DSA member, member of the League of Women Voters, ACLU.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020