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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
Lael Brainard
Women
Training
World
Care
Men
Farm
Too
Resources
Minimal
Rural
Part-Time
Developing
Developing World
Access
Limited
Labor
Child
Unequal
Child Care
Often
Behind
Mean
Choices
Communities
Farmers
Productivity
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall
Myself
Power
Own
Community
Design
My Own
Development
Announced
Perl
Limited
Said
Brain
Brain Power
Going
Wanted
Designed
Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.
Laurie Helgoe
Life
You
Important
Nice
Rejection
Way
Embrace
Small
Maintain
Most
Most Important Thing
Limited
Got
Important Thing
Up
Very
The Hardest Thing
The Most Important
Breaking
Breaking Up
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Neat
Thing
Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.
Lawrence Wright
Corruption
Natural
Wealth
Problems
Depend
Resources
Tend
Leads
Concentration
Limited
Diamonds
Authoritarianism
Often
Oil
Whether
Natural Resources
Certain
Coal
Inherent
Societies
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
Lee Child
Crime
Claustrophobic
Tend
Terms
Limited
Geography
Very
Stories
Psychological
Internal
British
Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.
Linda Colley
Good
Become
Luck
Good Deeds
Married
Charitable
Pretty
Kings
Above
Had
Supportive
Look
Princes
Limited
Females
Queens
Been
Discreet
Fertile
Very
Expected
Quietly
Roles
Granted
Who
Deeds
Royal
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Lionel Blue
Day
Religion
Woman
Mother
Dance
Synagogue
Sun
Charleston
Atonement
Like
She
Limited
Rocket
Ended
Modern
Modern Woman
Interest
Shot
Fast
Set
But the Supreme Court does not make sweeping changes in constitutional law by accident, or by its own design. Rather, the Court is limited to deciding the cases that the parties ask the Court to decide.
Lisa Blatt
Law
Accident
Own
Design
Changes
Constitutional
Cases
Rather
Parties
Supreme
Make
Supreme Court
Court
Limited
Does
Decide
Deciding
Ask
Sweeping
You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.
Lisa Loeb
Life
You
Try
Limited
Get
Want
Should
The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
Lloyd Dorfman
Property
Business
Waiting
Year
Collecting
Idea
Limited
Rent
Reviews
Times
Five-Year
Going
Appeal
Four
To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky.
Ma Yansong
Family
Nature
Together
People
Space
Sky
Build
Own
Live
High
Rise
Allow
Towers
Limited
Still
Go
Social
Land
Each
Millions
Millions Of People
Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited, we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable international environment.
Malcolm Fraser
Active
Our
Favourable
Constructive
Pursuit
Advance
Environment
Although
Limited
Capacities
Interests
Should
International
Peaceful
All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
Marc Guggenheim
You
Book
Imagination
TV
Only
Put
Stuff
Budget
Because
Limited
Comic
Comic Book
Afford
Artist
Just
Really
Your
To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.
Marco Beltrami
Music
Me
Medium
Everything
Limited
Just
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
Marilyn Horne
Language
Style
Composer
Pretty
Sing
Singers
Limited
Foreign
American
Often
Whereas
Anything
Much
Even
There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
Mario Van Peebles
You
Definitely
Out
Born
Environment
Limited
America
Getting
Where
Places
Really
Your
Chances
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
Mario Vargas Llosa
History
You
Reality
Invent
Facts
Without
Limited
Real
Essence
Being
Fiction
Manipulate
Disloyal
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
Mark Dayton
Service
Health
Women
Mental Health
Benefits
Problems
Care
Men
Men And Women
Soldiers
Physical
Mental
Unconscionable
Long-Term
Health Care
Returning
Health Problems
Limited
Due
Iraq
Brave
Brave Men
Afghanistan
Available
Cut
Many
Serious
Suffer
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
Mark McKinnon
Work
Government
Limited Government
Spending
Restrained
Environment
Make
Limited
Texas
Debt
Controlled
Low
Taxes
Regulatory
As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.
Mark McKinnon
Service
Family
Woman
Reward
Father
Girl
Husband
Sacrifice
Run
Cost
Limited
Making
Office
Any
Blunt
Cannot
Public
Required
Sanity
Public Service
Imagine
Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.
Markus Persson
You
Game
Matter
Power
Odds
Tool
More
Limited
Very
Infinite
Just
Against
Interesting
Much
Use
Fun
Playing
Set
Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries - I'm cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.
Marley Dias
Gender
Way
Those
Androgynous
Dressing
No-One
Masculine
Boundaries
Stereotypes
Limited
Feminine
Mixing
Up
Just
Race
Should
Cool
Ever
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
Martin Puryear
Local
Range
Magical
More
Ecology
Almost
Feels
Within
Limited
Isolated
Than
Site
Landed
Much
Really
Whole
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
Martin Scorsese
You
People
Cinema
First
Past
Thinking
Way
See
About
Only
Could
Know
Limited
Still
Years
Maybe
Theater
Really
Keep
Film
Actually
Apply
I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.
Martin Short
Man
Genius
Pretending
Drawn
Guy
He
Talent
Limited
Odd
Just
Full
Who
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
Marty Meehan
Custody
Become
Increasing
States
Ghraib
Torture
Clear
Abu
Since
Limited
Been
Iraq
Reports
Even
United
United States
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