Elaine A. Cannon Quotes
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!
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There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.