Women's Roles Quotes

• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Daughter, Strong Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.2594, e-artnow

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• The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.

  Michael Kimmel

  Past, Careers, Balance

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.

  Carolyn Merchant

  Men, Roles, Actresses

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• That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.

  Geena Davis

  Forever, Roles, Ratios

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

  Barbara Crampton

  Thinking, Roles, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women's roles.

  Barbara Crampton

  Strong Women, Real, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].

  Geena Davis

  War, Long, People

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Real, Interesting, Roles

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  Gail Collins

  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.

  Anais Nin

  Running, Fire, June

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• Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

  David Henry Hwang

  Men, Opera, Roles

  David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.49, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Sex, Roles, Classic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

  Cokie Roberts

  Men, Names, Soldier

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• [On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Women, Home

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• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  Sally Quinn

  Thinking, Roles, Growing

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

  Andrea Jung

  Children, Impact, Dollars

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• I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.

  Amy Dumas

  Eye, Wwe, Roles

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• One Time, One Day between Davie and Roberta , I asked my mom why she persisted, kept on having baby after baby, She looked at me, at a spot between my eyes, blinking like I had suddenly fallen crazy. She paused before answering as if to confide would legitimize my fears. She drew a deep breath, leaned against the chair. I touched her hand and I thought she might cry. Instead she put baby Davie in my arms Pattyn, she said, it's a woman's role. I decided if it was my role, I'd rather disappear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Baby, Crazy

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• I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Husband, Dad

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  "'Twilight' screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks Kristen Stewart, Bill Condon and 'Breaking Dawn'". Interview with Matt Donnelly, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 14, 2010.

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• If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Home

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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