"You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second."

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Source : "Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.

Frances O'Grady

#People Quotes #Wish Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.”
“Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.”

Source : "Many actresses hitting middle age find themselves desperate for good parts. Rosanna Arquette chases them down" by Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2003.
“What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”
“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.”

Source : "Common sense has much to learn from moonshine" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
“It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.”
“Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.72, The New Press
“I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States,”
“I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.”

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