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“There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.” (Allende Isabel)
“There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.” (Allende Isabel)
“I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.” (Allende Isabel)
I‘m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. (Allende Isabel)
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You’ve got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7. (Allende Isabel)
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. (Allende Isabel)
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. (Allende Isabel)
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. (Allende Isabel)
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. (Allende Isabel)
In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. (Allende Isabel)
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. (Allende Isabel)
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal. (Allende Isabel)
We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something. (Allende Isabel)
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. (Allende Isabel)
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. (Allende Isabel)
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. (Allende Isabel)
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. (Allende Isabel)
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. (Allende Isabel)
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. (Allende Isabel)
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. (Allende Isabel)
“held no public office, she wasn't a wealthy woman, didn't appear in the society pages, she did not have an advanced degree (but) when the history of this country is written ... it is this small quiet woman whose name will be remembered.” (Allende Isabel)
“In the absence of dogs and hoses there is no immediate, obvious enemy before us, so it's harder to mobilize a sense of outrage, ... Rosa Parks did not just sit down on her own initiative. She was part of a movement.” (Allende Isabel)
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. (Allende Isabel)
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve. (Allende Isabel)
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. (Allende Isabel)
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