Top 1200 Latin Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilize and galvanize a lot of these ideas and resources. It's a war of ideas. We, Islamic women, are very well supported in this country by institutions, academic and nonprofit, that are already in the field endorsing women's rights and tolerance. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work.

Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel - and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that's in dating, friendship, or business.

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being. They don't really - they seldom nail it. It takes a woman to write a really good female character. I like that.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.

I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.

How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women. Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women... You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t Thelma and Louise prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

The support I've had from all Latin people, and Mexico especially, has allowed me to conquer my alcoholism.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

The women I see are very brave women, very strong women, women that are facing a lot of challenges and yet are up to the challenges and are making a very big effort. So I don't see why one of them cannot become a president - one day.

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

Trans women are women, we're just a different type of women.

Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun. Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Women are against women, and men are against women. Like, women have to rise above so much to get ahead. I feel guilty that sometimes I hate being a woman. I hate it because there's so much weight on your shoulders at all times. Maybe I'm just really sensitive.

It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

People ask me almost every day, "Why? You are successful, you have kids, you have grandchildren, so why?" Feminist women are seen as unsatisfied. But all women in the world, if they are well aware of inequality, are unsatisfied women. They don't have the same rights as men, and there is no freedom until there is equality between men and women.

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.

I ask myself a lot how other women can be against the ideology that has to do with women empowering other women. Going along with the access of power and the status quo and forging a special position and the thought process that goes: I am not like those women. When it comes to things like assault, for example, perhaps it makes them feel safer. It's the denial: I'm okay. This won't happen to me. Acknowledging that the world is a profoundly unsafe for women is a scary thought.

Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's magazines are mostly about the outside and not about the inside. About make-up instead of arts and literature. Its such a shame.

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

By the year 2000, I want to be the first Latin musician to play on the moon.

The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I am not afraid to play Latin roles - that was a big part of my life.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Every episode of 'The Conversation' was created to be a platform for women, to connect women, and to allow women's voices to be heard as much as possible. That's why I launched that show on a television network and online simultaneously.

The Latin teams have this idea that they can't beat a good team in the same tournament twice.