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“It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are re...”
“If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were...”
“To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from ...”
“It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.”
“There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.”
“We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But...”
“What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.”
“It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.”
“There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing ...”
“I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”
“We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.”
“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”
“I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.”
“If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.”
“We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.”
“Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want ...”
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
“I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.”
“It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.”
“'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.”
