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My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
Leila Aboulela
Faith
Religion
Woman
Mother
Rare
Medicine
Way
Dress
About
Having
More
Studied
Idea
Very
Egypt
Which
Forties
Grandmother
Certain
Working
Certain Way
Professor
University
I always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think that's a woman's place, but because I care about aesthetics. I like art; I like going to art museums, and to me, these things are just manifestations of one's aesthetic sense.
Leila Janah
Art
Fashion
Me
Woman
Care
Clothes
Sense
Think
About
Like
Because
Always
Aesthetic
Going
Just
Loved
Place
Things
Museums
Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.
Leila Janah
Woman
Heart
Humanity
World
Care
Collective
Enjoy
Every
Baby
Other
Side
Our
Threat
Uganda
Loses
Sisters
Dies
While
Her
A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.
Leila Slimani
Food
Woman
Speak
Walk
Own
Gives
Nanny
She
How
Ambiguous
Very
Children
Place
Apartment
Them
Teaches
Who
Lives
Her
Raises
I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.
Leila Slimani
Man
Woman
Believe
Than
Child
Closer
Just
Naturally
Her
In an industry still dominated by men, working with a female director on an episode written by a woman, helmed by a female showrunner, all while doing scenes with your screen sister is like getting to see the big five at the wild animal park. It's awesome.
Lela Loren
Director
Woman
Animal
Men
Big
Sister
Awesome
Wild
Wild Animal
See
Scenes
Park
Written
Like
Industry
Female
Still
Doing
Dominated
Five
Getting
Screen
While
Episode
Working
Your
You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.
Lena Dunham
You
Woman
Yourself
Mother
Inevitable
Every
Think
Step
Development
Because
Does
Questions
Being
Children
Want
Ask
Your
Start
Raised
As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
Lena Waithe
You
Woman
Be Kind
Sometimes
Black
Out
Kind
Higher
Take
Never
Head
Never Take
Generous
Also
Industry
Learned
Stick
Polite
Answer
Chest
Just
Want
Hold
Really
Your
Even
I always love where I can plug a black woman in anywhere, and when that comes up, I don't say, 'Oh that has to be a black woman.' I say, 'Why not a black woman?'
Lena Waithe
Love
Woman
Black
Say
Plug
Always
Up
Oh
Where
Anywhere
Why
Why Not
Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
Leo Varadkar
Family
Man
Constitution
Woman
Marriage
Natural
Our
Unable
Marrying
Adopt
Having
Clear
Obviously
Very
Then
View
Largely
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
Leon Kass
Life
Woman
Abortion
Case
Fetus
Pits
Against
Pregnant
Pregnant Woman
Interests
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
Leonard Cohen
Man
Woman
Heart
Women
People
Men
Most
I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.
Leonard Lauder
Woman
Think
Cosmetics
Headed
Should
Company
I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.
Les Dawson
Me
Woman
Face
Once
Rum
Had
Red
Like
Most
She
South
Yes
Did
Northern
Lump
When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.
Lesley Manville
Life
Love
You
Woman
Son
Emotions
Before
Birth
Gave
Something
Never
Had
Tap
Huge
Huge Thing
Love You
Happened
Your
Whole
Now
Thing
Set
I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.
Letitia Baldrige
Work
Politics
You
Woman
Care
White
White House
Secretary
Administration
Would
Pick
Liked
Most
House
She
Wager
dont Care
American
Any
Place
Which
Social
Asked
Your
American Woman
Kennedy
A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.
Letitia Baldrige
Life
Good
Home
Man
Woman
Job
Good Taste
Clothes
Manners
Appropriate
Respected
Station
Kind
Table
Clean
Look
Welcoming
Make
Known
Taste
Regardless
Warm
Choices
Organize
Income
Level
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
Lewis Black
God
Me
Man
Woman
Hate
Pay
Other
Alimony
Sacred
Divorce
Between
Institution
Steve
Wanted
Who
Eve
Each
Serious
Adam
I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And that I think is probably a little more true because I'm a woman.
Lexi Alexander
Director
Woman
Believe
Think
Out
Bad
Would
More
Never
True
Make
Because
Truly
Walking
Jail
Little
Might
Film
The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.
Li Na
Woman
Tough
Tour
Very
Players
Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don't dare get close to her. We're just a bunch of farm boys.
Li Shufu
Beautiful
Woman
Beautiful Woman
Farm
Dare
Mysterious
Like
Look
Boy
Amazed
Close
Bunch
Get
Just
Far
Far Away
Away
Her
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
Libba Bray
Anger
Woman
Women
Power
Daring
Most
Comfortable
Accepting
Question
Roles
Want
Ask
Certain
Fully
Expressing
When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.
Lidia Bastianich
Man
Woman
Young
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
New
French
Chef
Italian
York
New York
Started
As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
Lili Taylor
Woman
Catching
Got
Been
Lot
Up
Stories
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith
Man
Woman
Fruit
Strange
Giving
Birth
Ancient
Born
Borne
Through
Him
Protest
Years
Forgive
Patriarchal
Against
Hard
Hard Thing
Found
Her
Thing
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
Lillie Langtry
Me
Woman
World
Old
Old Woman
Photograph
Would
Like
Want
Anyone
Why
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