When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.
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If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
Interpretation
Women supporting each other should be celebrated, while those who do not should be condemned.
This quote emphasizes the importance of solidarity among women and highlights the contrast between those who uplift and empower their fellow women versus those who do not. It suggests that the positive actions of supportive women should be rewarded and recognized, while the lack of support should have negative consequences.
In practice
In a women's empowerment seminar, this quote could inspire discussions on the importance of lifting each other up.
When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.
I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers.
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
It is accepted the world over that women are an essential part of what makes a society successful, and only through supporting and empowering women can a country truly be strong.
Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
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