As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey HepburnRead
A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.
Interpretation
Women can possess both beauty and intelligence simultaneously.
Audrey Hepburn's quote emphasizes the idea that a woman should not be confined to traditional roles or stereotypes that prioritize either beauty or intellect. It encourages the recognition of women's multifaceted nature, highlighting that they can embody both physical attractiveness and intellectual capacity, thus advocating for a broader appreciation of women in society.
In practice
During a women's empowerment seminar.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
On the one hand maybe Iβve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.
I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.
We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.
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