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I like to play strong women.
Autumn Reeser
Women
Strong
Strong Women
Like
Play
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.
Ava DuVernay
You
Man
Woman
Women
Black
White
Films
See
About
He
She
Make
Mean
Them
It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.
Ava DuVernay
Women
People
Worldview
Value
Our
Color
Emotional
Artists
Placed
Less
Who
I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
Ava DuVernay
Women
Black
College
Films
Teenager
Never
Had
Making
Child
Aware
Desire
Filmmaker
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
Ava DuVernay
Women
Black
Enough
Because
Women Are
Barbie
Even
When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women who direct: it's a lack of opportunities and access for women to direct and be supported in that.
Ava DuVernay
Women
Opportunities
Say
Direct
Directors
Supported
Access
Dearth
Lack
Who
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
Ava DuVernay
Women
Black
Made
Living
Difficult
Enough
Complex
Diverse
Fact
Point
Loud
Very
Subservient
In Fact
Cannot
Sassy
Lives
I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this 'stuff' and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.
Aviv Nevo
Me
Man
Women
Sometimes
Nothing
Everything
More
No-One
Share
Feel
Stuff
Along
Come
Like
Wonder
Than
Then
Planet
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Religion
Culture
Women
Oppression
Other
Recognize
Would
More
Rationale
Longer
Name
Bully
Than
Any
Us
Tolerate
Let Us
Twisted
Violent
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Women
Living
Like
Self-Image
Women Are
Noses
While
Confront
Tolerant
European
Elite
Slaves
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Culture
Women
People
Girl
Seen
Criminal
Respectful
Immigrant
Imperative
Abuse
Principled
Blinded
Well-Meaning
Women And Girls
Overwhelmed
While
Sensitive
Holland
Ignoring
Multiculturalism
I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community.
Ayanna Pressley
Rights
Women
Progress
Will
Sit
Community
Negotiate
Immigrants
Willing
Table
Compromise
Name
Anyone
Workers
Things
I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against women and candidates of color.
Ayanna Pressley
Politics
Me
Women
Furious
Way
Charges
Constant
About
Only
Color
Identity
Been
Candidates
Being
Against
Really
As women we try so hard to be perfect at everything, all the time. It's impossible.
Ayda Field
Time
Women
Impossible
Try
Everything
Perfect
Hard
I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.
Ayelet Waldman
Work
Me
Rights
Women
Abortion
Husband
Pay
Married
Some
Take
Never
Supporter
Name
Equal
Equal Pay
Equal Work
Am
Occurred
Feminist
Prisoners
Causes
Then
Adamant
So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.
Ayelet Waldman
Today
Women
Focus
Become
Secondary
Focused
Out
Husbands
Developed
Left
Children
Romantic
Many
Lives
I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.
Ayelet Waldman
Myself
Woman
Women
Opportunities
Men
Gender
Entitled
Constrained
Absolutely
Call
Feminist
Same
Mean
Should
Your
Who
Believes
I work for women. I only think for them. If I didn't like women, I wouldn't do this job.
Azzedine Alaia
Work
Women
Job
Think
Only
Like
Them
I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
Azzedine Alaia
Sad
Life
Women
Sadness
Think
Too
Enough
Seductive
Look
Without
Making
Should
Now
I make clothes; women make fashion.
Azzedine Alaia
Fashion
Women
Clothes
Make
I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct.
Azzedine Alaia
Fashion
Women
Followed
Never
Conduct
Dictated
Who
I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.
Azzedine Alaia
Time
Women
Young
Telling
Take
Always
Surround
Themselves
Designers
It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.
Azzedine Alaia
Women
Men
Important
Think
More
Feel
Make
Because
Than
Confident
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.
Azzedine Alaia
Me
Woman
Women
Young
Babies
Birth
Madame
Give
Had
She
Lot
Very
Tunisia
Midwife
Helped
Her
Assisted
Sibling
You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.
Azzedine Alaia
Me
You
Women
People
Except
Like
Know
Because
Said
Offered
Legion
Refused
Medal
Ridiculous
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.
Ban Ki-moon
Education
Needs
Family
Challenges
Risks
Women
Face
Girl
Member
About
Greater
Affected
Women And Girls
Family Member
May
Different
Injured
Disproportionately
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