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I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

~Caroline Corr

Topics: Am Because Drummers Female Like Look I Am

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Speaking personally, as a first-time female founder, I would not be where I am today without an incredible network of fellow founders who have shared their challenges, advice, and hacks with me.

~Caroline Ghosn

Topics: Advice Am Challenges Fellow Female First-Time Founder Founders Incredible Me Network Personally Shared Speaking Today Where Who Without Would I Am

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By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.

~Caroline Ghosn

Topics: Act Also Aspiring Certain Certain Way Female Generation Hurting Individuals Leaders Look Male Models Next Next Generation Only Passionate Respected Rigid Role Role Models Saying Those Watching Way Who

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Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Also Anorexia Away Body Bone Both Breasts Butt Caricature Cartoon Cruel Cultural Female Flesh Hips Ideal Images Leaves Place Response Sexuality Signs Strips

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There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: About Actively Agitation Altogether Becomes Chronic Dismiss Easy Even Familiar Female Feminine Hunger Kind Out Participating Particular Tune Wants You

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When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.

~Carrie Underwood

Topics: Actually Concert Courtney Did Different Dirty Down Fan Female Fun Get Got Grunge Guys High High School Hole Kind Liked Love Rare Really Rocker Saw School See Something Sophomore Stuff Successful Them

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We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

~Carrie Underwood

Topics: Artists Build Charts Female First Generally Longer Lot Male Momentum New Reach See Single Takes

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I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

~Carrie-Anne Moss

Topics: Acknowledge Awesome Characters Definitely Female Film Had Influence Matrix Television Think Trinity I Think

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When I realised that what I do really well is play women who are tough and vulnerable, it was a moment of clarity. Many female characters either have one trait or the other, but I play both. I don't need to play characters who are like me. I can just do that with my life.

~Carrie-Anne Moss

Topics: Both Characters Clarity Either Female Female Characters Just Life Like Many Me Moment My Life Need Other Play Realised Really Tough Trait Vulnerable Well Who Women I Can

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I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

~Cary Fukunaga

Topics: Agree Any Character Choices Complex Female Guess Human Know Make Makes Male Maybe Them Think Well-Rounded Whether You I Think

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