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«I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.»
Author: Gillian Anderson
(Actress)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Children,
Influence,
Life,
Women
| Keywords:
come up to, daughters
«I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.»
Author: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
(Diplomat)
| About:
Being a Woman
| Keywords:
administration, blot, blots, blotting, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, democrat, differently, ink, Republican, talked
«Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive»
Author: Leslie McIntyre
| About:
Being a Woman,
Women
| Keywords:
better-looking, geneticist, good-tempered, Good Looking, good temper, groom, groomed, grooming, grooms, manages, objects, Sculptor, sculptors, tempered, unaggressive
«No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society»
Author: Naomi Wolf
| About:
Being a Woman,
Myths,
Society,
Women
| Keywords:
individualize, individualized, individualizes, individualizing, myth, observations, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature»
Author: Petronius
| About:
Beauty,
Being a Woman,
Gifts,
Nature,
Women
| Keywords:
attractive, outward, playfulness, sweet talk, transcend
«I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law»
«I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.»
Author: Dolly Parton
(Actress, Singer)
| About:
Being a Woman
| Keywords:
bra, bras, department, fire department, first woman
«Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
Being a Woman
| Keywords:
consumers, magazines, mold
«Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend»
«My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.»
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