Refinement Series
Women
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Collected Women
Latest AdditionsThere are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.— Jean Giraudoux
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Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.— Mary Daly
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The industry just hasn't been thinking outside the box when it comes to Latina women.— La La Anthony
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There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.— Liz Vassey
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I think French women tend to keep it simple. I'd say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.— Jeanne Damas
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With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.— Marlon Brando
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.— Samina Baig
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Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.— Jean Chatzky
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Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.— Ho Chi Minh
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Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.— Jessica Valenti
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I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.— Matt Dillon
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I think the Diva Search was a great way to find women who might have been intimidated to get into the WWE world on their own.— Eve Torres
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Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.— Trinny Woodall
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What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.— Loretta Lynch
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.— Alan Ball
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A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.— Claudia Rankine
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