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- If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
- A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
- It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual…
- I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is…
- I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost…
- People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
- I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, 'Everybody with a…
- Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness…
- There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn…
- Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
- The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion…
- Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase.…
- Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that…
- It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them…
- Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion…
- We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its…
- Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
- It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
- Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
- Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece…
- Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the…
- In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
- Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar…
- There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle