A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
女人
Women
Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
女人可以继续结婚,假装他们的男朋友和丈夫是达西先生或一些浪漫的梦中情人。但那又有什么用呢?除了离婚法庭?
There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
没有全国性的广告。所有的广告都是本地的和个人的。这是一个男人或女人在厨房读报纸或在书房看电视。
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
因为我是一个女人,我必须做出不寻常的努力才能成功。如果我失败了,没有人会说,“她不具备成功的条件。”他们会说,“女人不具备必要的条件。”
Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
导演们并不担心选美女,但他们不确定自己想选好看的男人。我的外表使人们看不到我的作品。
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
除非人们认识到女性是最脆弱的……如果你为妇女争取社会和文化平等,你就永远无法战胜这场流行病。
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
我能想到的只有一种情况,那就是男性和女性都努力比平时读得更好。而是当他们坠入爱河,读情书的时候。
A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife."
一位成功的女传道人曾被问到:“作为一名女传道人,你遇到过哪些特别的障碍?”“没有,”她回答,“除了没有一个牧师的妻子。”
I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
我一直认为,女性有权利,而且有些女性足够聪明,能够主张这些权利。还有一些人愚蠢到不这么做。
I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.
我提到我的年龄,是因为我发现这个国家的人们——当然是女性,而不是男性——女性对自己的年龄感到非常烦恼。有一种年轻人的文化,这是一种虚假的文化。
After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
在其他女性的帮助下,经过大量的研究,我逐渐了解到,在父权制的众神之下,还有一位更为古老的女神。
The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.
今天退伍军人事务部的男女军人致力于照顾今天的退伍军人,并随时准备为现在保卫我们的自由和生活方式的军人提供服务。
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
我们必须有意识地学习如何温柔地对待彼此,直到它成为一种习惯,因为本土的东西已经从我们身上偷走了,那就是黑人女性对彼此的爱。
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
凡是有钱的单身汉,总想娶位太太,这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
女人需要男人,就像鱼需要自行车一样。
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
有趣的是你从来没有想过你的女人。你永远不会忘记那些离开你的人。
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
媒体可以做得更好,这是肯定的,特别是针对女性的媒体……人权?他们一点也不在乎!
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
男人最不同的地方是天堂和人间,而女人最坏的地方和最好的地方是天堂和地狱。
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
无论女人做什么,她们必须做得比男人好两倍,才能被认为是男人的一半。幸运的是,这并不困难。