Jourdan Dunn's Quotes
Born: 1990-08-03
Profession: Model
Nation: British
Biography of Jourdan Dunn
I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.
Tags: Black, Face, ShowI practice a lot.
Tags: PracticeI'm really ambitious.
Tags: AmbitiousMy favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.
Tags: Cooking, Family, LoveRecently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.
Tags: Good, Love, TimeI am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.
Tags: Future, Help, MoneyI don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.
Tags: Designer, Favourite, SpecialAmerican culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Tags: American, Between, WarAnd while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
Tags: Talent, While, WomenThe intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
Tags: Often, Violence, WomenAsked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
Tags: Fight, Men, WomenBut I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
Tags: Everybody, Stories, WriteBut I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Tags: College, Here, SchoolBut the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
Tags: Become, Book, GoodBut the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Tags: Care, Idea, WomenVisit partners pages
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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Tags: Age, Others, WordsI know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
Tags: Generation, Sex, TiredI think that it's really important to go away and come back.
Tags: AwayLet's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Tags: American, School, TeaPrior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
Tags: Death, Everyday, MedicalThis idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
Tags: Aggressive, Both, IdeaTraining of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
Tags: Limits, Training, UnknownIn our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Tags: Forget, Human, StrugglePerhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Tags: Deep, Men, WomenThe more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Tags: Men, Society, WomenThe second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
Tags: Giving, Power, WantedWe're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Tags: Enough, Politics, Power