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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
Maajid Nawaz
Day
Me
College
Single
Society
Way
Visited
Possible
Muslim
Entirely
Through
Between
Mosque
Islamic
Without
Male
Friends
Get
Any
Interacting
Meaningful
Meaningful Way
Homes
University
Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Women
Experience
Stress
Understanding
More
Counterparts
New
Most
Policies
Female
Understand
Mothers
Been
Male
Than
Often
Which
CEOs
Themselves
Workforce
Means
Keep
Why
Needed
Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Will
Job
White
Interviewer
Top
Defined
Most
Qualifications
Also
Test
Continue
Male
Males
Person
List
Any
Often
Litmus
Litmus Test
Held
Choice
Who
Credentials
Last
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Time
Best
Man
Woman
Women
School
Job
Rich
Definition
Best Man
Only
Fact
Leaders
Qualified
Learned
Traditional
Male
May
In Fact
Experiences
Either
Ask
Skills
Whose
Biography
Necessarily
My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.
Manal al-Sharif
Work
Me
Mother
Father
Guardian
Sister
Birth
Gave
Our
Only
Hospital
Take
Because
Male
Apartment
Available
Toddler
Help
Mecca
Floor
Her
In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.
Marcia Gay Harden
Action
Films
Guys
Female
Male
Role
Roles
Any
Heavy
Action Films
Film
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
Margaret Atwood
You
Women
People
Somewhere
Power
Tell
Would
Point
Could
Point Of View
Tends
Pick
Pyramid
Tale
Mistakenly
Felt
Narrator
Male
Oppressed
Women Are
Itself
Handmaid
Interesting
Organise
View
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
Margaret Wertheim
Long
More
Physicists
Female
Male
Years
Mathematicians
Up
Than
Convention
Against
Fields
Inherently
Portrayed
I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I do regret reading so little else there: Austen, George Eliot and occasionally Woolf, likewise Wright, Ellison, Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Margo Jefferson
Regret
School
Reading
White
Else
Spent
Brooks
Wright
Writers
Likewise
Occasionally
Traditional
George
Male
Years
Austen
Hughes
Canon
Woolf
Little
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Marguerite Young
Me
Women
Writing
Sometimes
Men
Destroy
Some
Seemed
Cruel
Hysterical
Name
Know
Also
Were
Been
Male
Reviewers
Reviews
Different
Want
Who
Even
Suffered
Tone
We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female protagonist who finds her way through. My way is unusual.
Marianne Elliott
Good
Perspective
Way
Finds
Steered
Through
Towards
Like
Protagonist
Unusual
Female
Always
Male
Canon
Who
Her
Plays
It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.
Marianne Elliott
Culture
Theatre
Society
Changing
Definitely
Critics
Male
I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.
Marie Brennan
Book
Neither
Only
Point
Point Of View
Split
Written
Court
Male
Dominated
Where
Them
View
Series
Novels
Roughly
Published
Two
Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?
Marjorie Liu
Women
Heroes
Entitled
Particular
Well
Male
Privileges
Why
Why Not
The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.
Mark Duplass
Life
Time
Me
Challenge
King
Girl
Enough
Topple
Parent
Structure
Know
House
Go
Male
Dominant
Same
Same Time
Establish
Them
Figure
Things
Two
As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.
Mark Frauenfelder
Life
Do-It-Yourself
Atheist
Conservative
Old
Met
Walks
Young
Rich
Liberal
Religious
Magazine
Come
Make
Makers
Female
Male
Scores
Poor
Dedicated
If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.
Mark Ruffalo
Day
Home
Son
Every Day
World
Try
Important
Few
Every
Lock
City
See
Give
He
Soon
Come
Hours
Him
How
Male
Mode
Effort
Just
Being
Then
Working
Now
Starting
I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.
Marta
Time
You
Together
Training
Competition
Understanding
Ability
Physical
See
Tactical
Football
Also
Limitations
Male
Friends
Get
Just
Who
Professionals
Away
Play
Play Football
Technique
Playing
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
Martina McBride
Music
Memories
Country
Band
More
Johnny
Had
Songs
He
Country Music
Also
Learn
George
Were
Male
Male Artists
Lot
Huge
Listen
Artists
Fan
Sang
Conway
Paycheck
Even
Dad
Earliest
If a man can coach a female, why can't a female coach a male? When I was looking for a coach, the gender of the coach never occurred to me. It was about who I thought was good and who I could get along with and listen to.
Martina Navratilova
Good
Me
Man
Thought
Gender
Looking
About
Could
Never
Along
Female
Occurred
Male
Get
Listen
Coach
Who
Why
I think men are more adventurous in that they're more likely to take chances. Women play it safe. But now, maybe more of the women that see how it's working for the guys think, 'I can do that, too'. Maybe they'll pick male players, not necessarily female players; it's just whatever that match is that works for that player.
Martina Navratilova
Women
Men
Whatever
Think
Too
See
Guys
More
Take
Pick
Adventurous
Safe
Likely
Match
Female
How
Male
Maybe
Just
Working
Works
Now
Play
Necessarily
Player
Players
Chances
That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.
Mary Badham
Strong
Important
Male
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Children
Growing
Growing Up
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.
Mary Beard
You
Women
Power
Those
About
Potential
Tend
Voices
Clearly
Most
Female
Terror
Male
Oppress
Oppressive
Lot
Cultures
Very
Antiquity
Afraid
Working
Certainly
Many
Shows
Whom
Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.
Mary Pilon
Finance
Great
Women
Recession
Back
Jobs
Bore
More
Brunt
Layoffs
Computers
Counterparts
Likely
Also
Were
Been
Male
Replaced
Than
Office
Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.
Matt Bevin
People
Old
Black
Young
White
Our
Alike
Independent
Rural
Both
Come
Democrat
Female
Male
Ends
Republican
Urban
Who
Socio-Economic
Kentucky
Spectrum
I had daydreamed through many performances of Swan Lake, thinking the dancing tutus only ever conveyed one aspect of swans: their beauty gliding on water. I wondered what it would be like to use male dancers and bring out swans' aggressive, muscular side.
Matthew Bourne
Water
Beauty
Aggressive
Thinking
Side
Dancers
Dancing
One Aspect
Out
Would
Would-Be
Only
Through
Had
Performance
Gliding
Like
Male
Wondered
Lake
Swan
Swans
Conveyed
Aspect
Use
Many
Ever
Bring
Muscular
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