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I'm not a career woman. -- June Allyson
I was never really a career woman. My life always came first. -- Carrie Snodgress
For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it. -- Laura Schlessinger
My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman. -- Audrey Hepburn
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. -- Helen Gurley Brown
I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did. -- MaryJanice Davidson
When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman. -- Betty Friedan
My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws. -- Giorgio Armani
Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms. -- Camille Paglia
Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids. -- Sarah Drew
It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines. -- Betty Friedan
I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes. -- Elizabeth Heyert
The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice. -- Camille Paglia
Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you. -- Leontyne Price
All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen. -- Jessica Alba
If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about. -- Debora Spar
The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset. -- Margaret Chan
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor. -- Rod Liddle
But, as potentially the first African American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman? -- Michelle Obama
I find many women are intimidated by "career women"! Bottom line: snap judgments about what you think others' perceptions might be about you, personally or professionally, can be more dangerous or damaging to you than those who are uncomfortable with your stature or your smarts. If you are smart and focused on your career, remind yourself that no one can ever take away your drive and your passion. -- Jenna Lee
Those young women who want a career... They can have mine. -- Mark Lawrence
I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have. -- Mitch Glazer
I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career. -- Amy Pascal
Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
Women or mothers in middle-age or mid-career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool. -- Hazel Blears
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men. -- George Bernard Shaw
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career. -- Helen Fielding
When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.' -- Lana Parrilla
Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out. -- Candice Bergen
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I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career. -- Bill Burr
We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy. -- Joanna Garcia
Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work. -- Mary Matalin
Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid. -- Donatella Versace
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move. -- Erica Jong
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. -- Marie Curie
If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away. -- Dana Perino
Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility. -- Laurie Graham
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. -- Charles B. Rangel
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. -- Charles B. Rangel
It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background. -- Anna Friel
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't. -- Suzanne Fields
One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women. -- Wendy Greuel
I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class. -- Carol Roth
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. -- Camille Paglia
I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books. -- Heather Graham Pozzessere

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