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• I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.

  Gilda Radner

  Cute, Women, Love Is

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• And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

  Ginni Rometty

  Technology, Changed, Ibm

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Fortune Most Powerful Women summit, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Fate, World, Timing

  FaceBook post by J. Courtney Sullivan from Mar 11, 2016

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• I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

  Norah Vincent

  Thinking, Privilege

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• I think more than being a woman is the fact that i'm an introvert. In the environment I work in people forget that i'm a woman which is wonderful it just shows what a wonderful environment i work in, no one treats me differently. They don't think that because i'm a woman i'll make decisions differently.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• What does it mean, being a woman?

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mean, Doe

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• I think the biggest shift for me is - this is going to sound like a wanky actor, but - getting in touch with, and learning to not just appreciate, but actually really enjoy being a woman. Because for so long I was a jock, and I was an athlete, and I was a tomboy, and people would joke about like, fancy dress, you should go as a girl.

  Zoe Bell

  Girl, Athlete, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

  Alexei Sayle

  Way, My Friends

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• Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Hate, Writing, Eye

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• I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.

  Shirley Polykoff

  Firsts, Advertising, Persons

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• If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

  Marissa Mayer

  Self, Conscious, Ifs

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• There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

  Jenna Elfman

  Men, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Being a woman is really crap.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Crap

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• It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

  Ruth Wilson

  Fun, Powerful, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

  Jaime Winstone

  Girl, Reflection, Years

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• I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ideas, Fairy Tale, Domain

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• People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Careers, People, Answers

  "74 Minutes With Sallie Krawcheck" by Helaine Olen, nymag.com. June 28, 2013.

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• One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

  Sheila Heti

  Women, Example, Looks

  Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.4, Macmillan

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• I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.

  Zoe Saldana

  Kids, Watches, Able

  Source: www.filmindustrynetwork.biz

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• In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Powerful, Mean, Apologizing

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses. ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Hollywood, Dresses, Movement

  "Reese Witherspoon Supports #AskHerMore: 'It's Hard Being A Woman in Hollywood'" by Lorena O'Nei, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  Augustus

  Husband, Children, Giving Up

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• In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Feminist, Today, Courtesy

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Memories, Taken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.14, Anchor

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• Being a woman is hard work.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Women, Hard Work

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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