Cordelia Fine Quotes

#1. Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#2. As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.

Cordelia Fine

#3. She is one of the bravest people I know, because when she's scared, or nervous, or so uncomfortable that she wants to do anything but what she has to do, she does it anyway. She taught me that you can only truly be brave if you're afraid, that without fear there is no bravery.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Neurosexism promotes damaging, limiting, potentially self-fulfilling stereotypes. Three years ago, I discovered my son's kindergarten teacher reading a book that claimed that his brain was incapable of forging the connection between emotion and language. And so I decided to write this book.

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#5. Give me patience.
Flash.
Give me control.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. The wind was still making an orchestra out of the tent. But it wasn't a requiem anymore.

Kate Tempest

#7. Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

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#8. While parenthood served as no disadvantage at all to men, there was evidence of a substantial "motherhood penalty". Mothers received only half as many callbacks as their identically qualified childless counterparts.

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#9. I'm just moving clouds today, tomorrow I'll try mountains.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#10. A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment.

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#11. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.

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#12. 0Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'.

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#13. A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as 'blobs'.

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#14. Outlive your superiors and the world is yours.
~ Beniago

R.A. Salvatore

#15. My husband would probably like you to know that, for the sake of my research for this chapter, he has had to put up with an awful lot of contemptuous snorting.

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#16. An interest in Star Trek and an antisocial lifestyle may not, in fact, be unassailable correlates of talent in computer programming.

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#17. Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

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#18. Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

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#19. Boys do not pursue mathematical activities at a higher rate than girls do because they are better at mathematics. They do so, at least partially, because they think they are better.

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#20. Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

Cordelia Fine

#21. the greater the gender equity of a country, the smaller the gender gap in the importance of the financial resources of a partner (as well as in the importance of other preferences, like chastity and good looks).36

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#22. I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Arnold Schwarzenegger