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女人
Women
Maybe men and women aren't from different planets as pop culture would have us believe. Maybe we live a lot closer to each other. Perhaps, dare I even say it, in the same zip code.
也许男人和女人并不像流行文化让我们相信的那样来自不同的星球。也许我们住得更近。也许,我甚至不敢说,在同一个邮政编码。
We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.
我们知道,出生把一个女人从她生命中的一个地方带到另一个地方。孩子的出生确实改变了她对自己的看法,我相信她对世界的看法。
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
要实现真正的变革,我们在管理世界方面需要女性的力量。我们需要有相当数量的女性担任要职,我们需要培养男性的女性能量。
It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?
我认为,这对女性来说更难。我还没想明白,我所有的女性朋友也没想明白——你到底是怎么做到的?你是如何工作和成家的?
I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.
我和一个和我有关系的女人在一起。她要钱。我觉得自己好像是被敲诈了,或者是受到了某种勒索。
I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
看到我的朋友们因为觉得自己不够好而哭泣,我真的很难过。聪明、自信、善良的年轻女性都说:“我正在毁掉我孩子的生活。”
I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.
我的意思是,我首先嫁给了世界上最好的女人之一,如果不是的话。她什么都好——风趣、迷人、勤奋、正直,她爱我爱得发狂。
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe; she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
也许女士比绅士更聪明;她能缝一条好缝,她能生孩子,她能用直觉而不是大脑,但她不能在拥挤的火车上叠纸。
I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.
我阅读着无数的垃圾脚本。典型的角色是扮演他的妻子或女朋友——女性的主要角色非常少。
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
是妇女们承受着血淋淋的痛苦。痛苦是一种恐怖。血是一种恐怖。女人生来就充满了恐惧。这是一种生物现象。
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
人们在沙漠中架起了桥梁,修筑起了公路,然而他们成功地争辩说,缝一颗钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此,他们不需要缝扣子。
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
没有人会对女作家一遍又一遍地准确地再现男性角色感到惊讶,毫无疑问,因为每个人都知道,女性比男性更了解男性。
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
在历史的大部分时间里,无名氏都是女性。
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
一段时间以来,我一直在为我的员工寻找女性作家,我的员工中有三名女性和三名男性,所以男女比例相当。我不知道为什么。一段时间以来都是一样的。女喜剧演员很难脱颖而出。这是奇怪的。这是一个耻辱。
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
多年来,我明白了穿裙子的女人才是最重要的。
An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.
当一个简单的女人最终说出她的意思时,她会变得复杂。
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
一个放弃自由的女人不必放弃她的尊严。
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。