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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

~Amartya Sen

Topics: About Also Award Bangladesh Basic Came Care Equity Gave Gender Health Health Care Immediate Including India Literacy Me Nobel Obsessions Old Opportunity Practical Something Specifically Way

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The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Achieving Changes Collaborative Corporations Culture Efficiency Energy Focus Gender Government Institutions Intensely Internal Policy Pour Race Relating Result Workplace

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I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Age Class Differs Displacement Environment Ethnicity Eyes Further Gender Little Look Makes Me Myself Observer Prefer Put Sharper Social Social Class Someone Think Through Who I Think

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I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

~Amy Jo Martin

Topics: Based Business Ceo Deal Done Due Entrepreneur Fact Friend Gender Great Great Deal Isolated Leaders Male Mere Models More Never Personal Respect Role Role Models Them Those Tony Within Work

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I read academic books on courtesan culture at the turn-of-the century in Shanghai such as Gail Hershatter's 'The Gender of Memory'. The diaries were mostly in the form of letters from courtesans to a lover who had disappeared or taken their savings.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Academic Books Century Culture Diaries Disappeared Form Gender Had Letters Lover Memory Mostly Read Savings Shanghai Taken Were Who

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Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.

~Ana Navarro

Topics: About Also Benghazi Clinton Criticize Does Emails Gender Her Hillary Hillary Clinton How Look Part People Perceive Play Reason Yes

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It's quite unbelievable that Charlie Crist is getting away with this reinvention of himself - this rewriting of history for blatantly political purposes. Other than his gender, the guy has flip-flopped on everything, and I don't put that past him either.

~Ana Navarro

Topics: Away Charlie Either Everything Gender Getting Guy Him Himself His History Other Past Political Purposes Put Quite Reinvention Rewriting Than Unbelievable

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You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

~Andrea Dworkin

Topics: Act Bedroom Come Door Gender Individuals Intercourse Leave Life Love Make Manipulative Men Outside Predatory Private Sexually Social Then Think Together Two Women Women Are You

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I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

~Andrea Thompson

Topics: Any Between Born Committed Could Gender Homosexuality How Just Look No Problem People Problem Regardless Relationship Two Two People Way Wrong

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I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

~Andrej Pejic

Topics: Artistic Gender Guess Interpretation Left Open Professionally

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