"It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am."

Woman, Women, Right, Vanity

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

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"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible."

Jim Bakker, American Celebrity

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"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

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"My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

Henry James, American Writer

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"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."

Emma Bonino, Italian Politician

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"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest."

Success

"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."

Press

"I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role."

Movies

"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."

Peace

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

America

"You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all."

Movies

"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."

Ballet

"As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working."

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"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important."

Achievement

"I like to make movies I like to watch."

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