Women Quotes
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“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
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“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
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“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
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“Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.”
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“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
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“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
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“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“Women hold up half the sky.”
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“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
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“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
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“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
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“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
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“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
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“Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.”
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
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“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
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“Women are the real architects of society.”
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“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
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“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”
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“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
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“In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.”
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“I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.”
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“I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.”
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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
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“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.”
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“A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.”
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“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.”
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“Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”
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“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
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“I am my own woman.”
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“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
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“Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.”
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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
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“From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.”
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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
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“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”
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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
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“Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.”
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“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”
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“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”
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“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”
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“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”
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“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”
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“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”
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“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”
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“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
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“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
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“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.”
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“There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.”
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“All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.”
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“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”
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“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”
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“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
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“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”
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“Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.”
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“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”
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“I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.”
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“Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.”
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“Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.”
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“Women don't realize how powerful they are.”
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“You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.”
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“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
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“Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.”
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“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
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“Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.”
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“This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.”
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“After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'”
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“Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.”
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“The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.”
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“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.”
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“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”
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“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
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“Women hear rhythm differently than men.”
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“A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.”
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“I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.”
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“A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.”
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“Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.”
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“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
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“I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.”
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“The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.”
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“There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.”
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“No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.”
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“Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.”
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“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
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“My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.”
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“The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.”
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“People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.”
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“The test of civilization is its estimate of women.”
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“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
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“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”
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“I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.”
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“Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.”
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“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”
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“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
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“Women are women, and hurray for that.”
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“Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.”
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“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”
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“In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.”
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“Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.”
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“Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.”
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“Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.”
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“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”
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“Honor your daughters. They are honorable.”
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“Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.”
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“On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.”
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“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”
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“In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.”
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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
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“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
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“Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.”
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“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”
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“Were there no women, men might live like gods.”
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“Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.”
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“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
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“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.”
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“My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.”
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“Women have a predestination to suffering.”
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“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”
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“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”
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“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.”
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“Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.”
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“I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.”
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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”
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“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”
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“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”
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“In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.”
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“I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.”
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“Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.”
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“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
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“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
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“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
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“Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.”
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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.”
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“Men and women, women and men. It will never work.”
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“Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.”
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“I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
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“When anything goes, it's women who lose.”
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“It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.”
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“Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.”
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“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
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“I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.”
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“If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?”
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“The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.”
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“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”
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“Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.”
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“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
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“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.”
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“Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.”
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“The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.”
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“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
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“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.”
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“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”
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“Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.”
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“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”
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“Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.”
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“I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.”
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“We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.”
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“Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.”
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“And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.”
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“For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.”
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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.”
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“Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.”
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“There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.”
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“I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.”
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“What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.”
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“Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.”
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“Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.”
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“I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.”
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“Women have this obsession with shoes.”
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“The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.”
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“All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.”
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“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
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“Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.”
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“I think women are excellent social critics.”
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“You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.”
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“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”
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“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”
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“Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.”
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“All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.”
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“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.”
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“Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.”
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“I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.”
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“What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.”
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“A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.”
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“Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.”
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“It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.”
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“The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.”
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“One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.”
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“I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.”
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“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
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“Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.”
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“Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.”
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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”
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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
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“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”
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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
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“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”
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“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
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“A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.”
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“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.”
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“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
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“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
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“Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.”
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“I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.”
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“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
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“If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.”
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“A women's greatest asset is her beauty.”
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
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“Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.”
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“We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.”
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“After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.”
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“A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”
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“I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!”
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“Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.”
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“If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'”
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“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
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“The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.”
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“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”
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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
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“It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.”
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“As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.”
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“I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.”
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“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.”
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“Women. They are a complete mystery.”
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“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”
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“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.”
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“There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.”
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“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”
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“I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.”
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“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”
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“We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.”
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“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”
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“Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.”
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“In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.”
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“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.”
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“Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.”
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
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“I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”
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“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
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“All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.”
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“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”
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“I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.”
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
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“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
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“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.”
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“I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.”
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“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”
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“One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen.”
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“My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.”
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“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
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“I love women to death.”
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“That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
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“Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.”
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“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
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“Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
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“If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.”
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“Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.”
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“Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.”
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“It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.”
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“I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.”
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“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.”
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“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”
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“I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.”
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“I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.”
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“Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.”
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“We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.”
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“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
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“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”
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“Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.”
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“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”
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“At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.”
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“Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.”
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“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.”
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“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.”
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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
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“In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.”
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“Women are to maintain submission to men in all churches in all times.”
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“There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.”
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“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”
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“I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.”
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“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
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“I can hear the roar of women's silence.”
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“The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.”
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“Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.”
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“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
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“Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.”
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“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.”
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“If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.”
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“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
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“Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.”
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“Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character.”
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“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
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“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”
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“Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.”
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“My mother made me truly appreciate women.”
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“Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.”
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“Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.”
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“For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.”
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“I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.”
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“Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.”
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“What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.”
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“Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.”
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“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”
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“You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.”
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“There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.”
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“I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?”
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“Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.”
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“The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.”
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“I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.”
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“I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.”
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“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”
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“We're mature women, we want to talk about naughty things.”
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“I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me.”
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“A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.”
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“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”
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“People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em.”
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“Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.”
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“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
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“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
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“It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.”
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“Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.”
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“The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.”
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“Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.”
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“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.”
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“Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.”
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“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
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“I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.”
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“A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.”
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“I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema.”
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“Men want to make women happy.”
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“I've been misunderstood when it comes to women. I've got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there's something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.”
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“No. I'm not. Nor have I ever been, although I know there are people who thought I was. I do have a lot of women friends, but none of them is gay, nor have they ever been.”
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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
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“I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.”
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“Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.”
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“I don't know if I'm a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.”
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“Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.”
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“I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.”
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“The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.”
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“It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.”
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“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”
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“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”
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“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”
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“Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.”
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“As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.”
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“Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?”
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“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”
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“Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.”
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“Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.”
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“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”
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“A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.”
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“The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.”
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“I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.”
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“We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.”
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“I don't get all the women that I want… I get all the women that want me.”
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“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
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“I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have gotten lung cancer were no-time smokers.”
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“My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the Hydari club for women so that they could play tennis, and she also set up the first girls' school in Hyderabad.”
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“There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.”
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“I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.”
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“Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”
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“You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.”
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“Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.”
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“Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.”
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“That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.”
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“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.”
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“Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.”
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“By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.”
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“Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'”
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“Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.”
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“It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.”
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“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”
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“Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.”
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“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
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“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.”
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“I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?”
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“The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.”
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“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.”
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“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”
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“The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.”
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“War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.”
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“Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.”
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“Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.”
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“The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.”
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“When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of 'Lives of Girls and Women,' I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.”
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“'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.”
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“I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'”
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“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
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“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.”
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“Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?”
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“Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.”
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“Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.”
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“Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.”
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“I've never had a homosexual or bisexual experience, but it doesn't make me uncomfortable to dip into those feelings. I think a lot of women have those feelings without acting on them.”
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“I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.”
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“Cricket is not gender biased. It isn't that men's cricket is different and women's a different one.”
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“I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.”
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“A problem shared is a problem halved, but as with so many problems affecting women - periods, menopause, post-natal depression - we often feel embarrassed, as if we're moaning or just plain wrong to air them.”
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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”
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“Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.”
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“Women are like wine: strong, spirited, full bodied, intoxicating, and potent. And we never cease to surprise.”
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“I want 'Scars to Your Beautiful' to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it's me, it's you - it's every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.”
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“Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.”
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“With trans people, I just think you can't help the way you are born, though. You know, it's DNA, it's genetics. I'm just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they're trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous - it's a minority of people.”
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“Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.”
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“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.”
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“But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.”
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“I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.”
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“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.'”
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“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”
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“I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.”
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“Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.”
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“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.”
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“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
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“We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.”
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“Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?”
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“I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.”
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“You can't be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don't want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It's all connected.”
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“As president, I will only nominate judges - including Supreme Court justices - who will commit to upholding Roe v. Wade as settled law and protect women's reproductive rights.”
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“The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.”
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“I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.”
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“Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.”
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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
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“I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.”
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“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
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“I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.”
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“Women are better than men.”
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“'No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.' - bell hooks”
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“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.”
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“Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.”
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“In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.”
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“In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.”
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“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.”
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“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.”
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“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”
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“Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don't cross.”
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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
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“Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.”
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“I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.”
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“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
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“Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.”
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“I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?'”
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“Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.”
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“I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.”
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“Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.”
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“I married beneath me, all women do.”
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“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.”
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“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”
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“As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.”
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“I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for pageants. And the reason I got involved is because I wanted to give back to girls, and I really believe that girls that are involved in pageants are ambitious, driven women who are trying to set themselves apart from the pack.”
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“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.”
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“Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.”
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“In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.”
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“It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?”
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“Women are women's own worst enemy. They rip each other apart.”
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“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.”
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“At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.”
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“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”
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“Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!”
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“I don't call myself a women's footballer; I say I'm a footballer.”
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“Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
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“You can't dictate to a country or a religion about how they handle things, but having said that, WWE is at the forefront of a women's evolution in the world, and what you can't do is effect change anywhere by staying away from it.”
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“I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.”
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“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”
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“I dress for women and I undress for men.”
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“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”
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“Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off.”
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“There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”
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“I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.”
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“With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.”
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“There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.”
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“Taylor Swift - I can't say enough good things about her. I admire her so much as a person and as a role model for young women.”
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“My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.”
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“It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.”
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“Being a law enforcement officer is one of the toughest jobs that there is, but it's also foundational to a functioning society. We rely on these brave men and women to protect and serve our country every day.”
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“To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.”
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“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.”
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“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”
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“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
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“Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.”
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“If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.”
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“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”
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“Silence is an ornament for women.”
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“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”
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“Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we're women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We've been feeling the inequality; we've been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.”
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“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”
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“I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.”
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“Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.”
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“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”
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“Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.”
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“Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.”
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“We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.”
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“Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.”
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“Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.”
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“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
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“Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.”
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“Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.”
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“Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.”
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“There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.”
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“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.”
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“Older women have always been attracted to me.”
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“China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women… The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time - even life itself must be secondary.”
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“There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.”
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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”
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“A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.”
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“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”
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“It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.”
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“I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.”
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“For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.”
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“I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.”
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“I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.”
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“There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.”
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“If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.”
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“For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.”
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“Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.”
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“My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.”
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“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”
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“The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.”
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“We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.”
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“Women… can't live with 'em… can't shoot 'em.”
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“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”
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“Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.”
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“There are mothers who sacrifice their dreams for family and feel terrible about it. There are mothers who are career women as well, without being apologetic about it.”
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“It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.”
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“I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.”
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“If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.”
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“Women, if left to their own devices, are going to tend and trend Democratic. That is absolutely the case.”
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“In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.”
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“The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.”
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“As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.”
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“Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?”
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“Women are in a position now to voice their opinion… women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.”
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“In order to improve maternal health, we have to focus on improving all women's health and access to care - not just during labor and delivery, but before and after pregnancy, and throughout our lives.”
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“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
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“It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.”
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“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
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“Old women should not seek to be perfumed.”
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“What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.”
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“Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.”
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“I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.”
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“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”
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“Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.”
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“Women make the world go round.”
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“I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.”
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“Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so common. It's normalized. And it's an abuse of power.”
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“They say women and music should never be dated.”
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“Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.”
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“Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.”
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“Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.”
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“Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don't want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He's an FBI agent.”
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“In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.”
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“Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.”
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“I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.”
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“We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.”
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“I don't eat with beautiful women alone.”
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“Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.”
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“We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.”
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“Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.”
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“For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.”
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“The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.”
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“In no culture ever studied have women repeatedly preferred to mate with pear-shaped, low-status, tepid men possessing high-pitched, nasal voices.”
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“You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'”
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“I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.”
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“Women are really emotional creatures, and men are kind of closed in terms of emotions. I think women are just a lot more out there.”
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“It's not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women's issues. And women's issues here in Iowa are that we have a strong economy. We have jobs that our sons and daughters can go off to someday. We have a great educational system. And women want strong national defense. We want to know that our families are going to be safe.”
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“But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.”
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“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”
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“Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.”
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“When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.”
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“If it wasn't for women, I wouldn't be here. I'm a mamma's boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.”
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“They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.”
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“I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.”
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“I'm always trying to push for women's rights.”
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
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“Women are such strong, powerful leaders, and a lot of the time, we play it silent.”
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“From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.”
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“As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!”
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“In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.”
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“The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.”
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“I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.”
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“Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.”
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“People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.”
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“While it is important that black women begin to receive the accolades and assistance they are due from the Democratic Party, they cannot be expected to continue to save white people from the poor choices they make - based not on moral values but party affiliation.”
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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”
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“Some women are able to wake up looking effortlessly chic - as though a bevy of fashion fairies twisted their low-lit locks into a messy chignon while they slept. They choose a frock from their exceptionally curated closet and leave a trail of custom fragrance and perfection in their wake.”
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“You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.”
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“Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.”
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“I mean, so hopefully soon there's enough women and enough people of colour and enough of every group out there that feels that they get the recognition they deserve, and then we don't have to talk about it anymore.”
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“When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.”
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“Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn't them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don't.”
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“I don't believe in Women's Liberation. No, no, no, no, no. Not at all.”
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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”
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“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.”
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“As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.”
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“Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.”
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“As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.”
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“In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.”
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“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.”
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“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.”
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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
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“All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.”
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“I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.”
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“I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.”
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“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.”
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“The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.”
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“My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.”
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“Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.”
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“I like women. I love women.”
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“I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.”
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“People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.”
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“I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I've met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.”
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“I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.”
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“The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, and by 1956 NAACP leaders came to me and asked me to be part of a lawsuit they wanted to file on my behalf and that of three other women, to challenge segregation on public buses.”
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“In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.”
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“I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.”
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“The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.”
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“I've always wanted to do a video of me following a girl down the street. Michael Jackson's done it. Omarion's done it. All these male pop artists have followed women down streets in videos - it's kind of the classic thing. And I was like, there is no video of a girl following a girl down the street. I need to do this at some point in my life.”
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“I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.”
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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
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“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.”
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“There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.”
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“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”
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“I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that.”
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“My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My first decision is always based on, 'Can I do this in a more sustainable way without sacrificing design?' If I can, then there is no reason not to.”
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“It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.”
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“Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.”
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“There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.”
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“I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”
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“'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.”
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“I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.”
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“Being surrounded by great women and amazing role models and good teammates allowed me to unfold and evolve into the person that I am today.”
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“All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.”
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“Let's see… I have a thing for pretty legs. But most importantly, I like confident women.”
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“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.”
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“Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.”
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“Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?”
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“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation… none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”
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“Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.”
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“A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.”
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“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”
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“I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.”
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“If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?”
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“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
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“Women love a self-confident bald man.”
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“There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.”
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“We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?”
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“Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.”
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“I am both humbled and honored to receive the Honda Sports Award for women's basketball.”
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“Women are problem solvers, and often we don't get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who's loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That's not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.”
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“Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.”
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“Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”
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“I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.”
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“Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.”
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“We got a lot of gay fan mail when the show first started. Something to do with being in San Francisco and being a big, burly guy with a big moustache. But we're both happily married. To women.”
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“Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.”
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“Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.”
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“Our nation is forever indebted to the brave men and women who laid it all on the line for our country, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedoms.”
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“Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.”
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“I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.”
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“The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.”
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“God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”
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“South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.”
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“'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.”
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“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”
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“Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!”
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“Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.”
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“Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.”
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“Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'”
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“We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.”
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“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
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“The use of sanitary pads and the dos and don'ts should be discussed with openness so as to make a hygienic and healthy life for the women.”
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“A lot of women need to know that they don't have to conform, they don't have to take no for an answer.”
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“God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.”
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“To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
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“Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.”
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“Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.”
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“Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.”
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“I'm trying to change how women think about themselves.”
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“I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!”
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“Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.”
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“In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.”
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“I think people don't give young women enough credit, really.”
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“If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.”
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“Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.”
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“But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.”
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“When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.”
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“Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.”
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“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”
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“So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.”
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“There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.”
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“Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.”
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“Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.”
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“My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.”
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“Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country.”
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“I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.”
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“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”
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“My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.”
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“The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.”
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“It's time Pakistani women are able to stand up and hold their oppressors accountable, no matter how strong or influential they are. Don't be scared. They are strong because we are weak - lets change that.”
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“The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.”
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“The women I draw all have the same sort of personality. I can't draw gentle girls; I only know how to draw ones who are strong-willed.”
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“I do believe in women. I really do.”
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“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”
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“I'll always identify with the image of a strong woman. I believe that in what I do and in my sense of self, there's a vindication of women. There's power.”
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“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
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“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”
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“Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'”
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“What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.”
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“When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.”
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“I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'”
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“All women are forces of nature, and I believe in their power.”
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“My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all - specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community - great schools, public safety, etc.”
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“I don't understand why women get so frustrated with guys talking to other women, just casual conversation. I don't get it. I've had a problem with that.”
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“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”
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“I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.”
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“I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so… interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.”
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“On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.”
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“Firstly, there is no perfect man. Looking for that it worse than starting the race badly, it means you're in the wrong race. What women should be searching for is their ideal man - i.e. the one whose values, beliefs and outlook on life synergise with their own.”
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“We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.”
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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
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“As tastes shift around the globe and there are more roles for women, there are more women who can participate. Salaries will go up and be commensurate.”
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“I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.”
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“Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.”
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“When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them. And now I'm in my early thirties, and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it; it's the way things are.”
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“Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.”
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“We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.”
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“Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.”
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“We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.”
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“In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.”
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“Every woman who has left and gone into private practice has done fabulously. So the question is why aren't more women drawn to this field? It's helpful to enjoy the art of advocacy - verbal combat or verbal jousting. I find it telling that so many woman might be horrified, and you know, wouldn't want to do it.”
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“Our women's union members and other women are really excellent and praiseworthy.”
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“Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.”
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“I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.”
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“For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.”
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“My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.”
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“Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.”
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“My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.”
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“I come from a long line of very strong, tough women. We stick to our principles and stand up for what we believe in, which is fundamental fairness, which is my raison d'etre.”
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“To empower the women in rural areas, we have started something called Mission Shakti.”
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“My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.”
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“I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.”
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“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
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“Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.”
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“Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.”
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“When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.”
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“The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.”
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“In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.”
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“Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.”
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“Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.”
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“I think the most important thing… is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.”
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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
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“Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”
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“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.”
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“I truly believe that ESPN has been in the forefront in terms of the diversity in front of the camera and improving the balance between men and women.”
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“Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.”
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“The solution to 'on-line harassment' is simple: women should log off.”
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“I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose.”
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“I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that's driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I've known in my life.”
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“Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.”
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“I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.”
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“I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.”
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“Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.”
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“Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.”
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“I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.”
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“There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.”
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“Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.”
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“Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.”
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“You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.”
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“Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.”
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“I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.”
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“Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.”
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“I don't think thin brows will make a comeback; women have finally seen how much more beautiful their look can be with a properly shaped eyebrow.”
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“Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.”
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“It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.”
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“The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.”
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“The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.”
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“I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.”
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“One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.”
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“When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.”
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“I guess I was a bad boy… Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.”
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“To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world.”
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“'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.”
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“Women are used to worrying over trifles.”
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“Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.”
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“There are some good traditions in our culture, one of which is that men dance with women. Soon we will reach the stage where we will all have to publicly apologise for being heterosexual.”
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“I like classy women: Virna Lisi, Catherine Deneuve.”
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“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.”
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“The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.”
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“Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.”
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
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“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”
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“I think it's important for not just me but women of color, trans women, and people who are marginalized to be telling stories of themselves. It's important for us to be behind the lens.”
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“I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.”
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“Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.”
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“I love to look at women with good bones and good bodies in good clothes.”
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“Women should be obscene and not heard.”
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“To women, Americans of color, and the citizens of the world, Donald Trump, if he is taken at his word, represents a threat to you all.”
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“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”
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“Men and women have strengths that complement each other.”
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“There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.”
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“Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.”
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“As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.”
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“We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.”
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“Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.”
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“I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.”
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“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
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“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
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“I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.”
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“I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.”
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“For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.”
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“I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.”
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“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.”
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“Stalking brings fear, uncertainty, and violence into the lives of victims. Public awareness is a crucial step forward in protecting women and men from stalking and intimate partner violence.”
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“Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.”
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“You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.”
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“Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.”
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“Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.”
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“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.”
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“I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.”
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“I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
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“Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.”
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“There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.”
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“People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.”
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“The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.”
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“Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.”
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“The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.”
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“The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.”
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“Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.”
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“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.”
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“Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'”
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“There are a lot of good women in New York.”
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“I hate women because they always know where things are.”
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“If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.”
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“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”
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“My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.”
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“I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don't have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That's hard.”
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“Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.”
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“I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.”
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“When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.”
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“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
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“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
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“Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.”
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“I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.”
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“I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.”
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“You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.”
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“Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.”
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“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”
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“I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.”
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“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”
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“The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.”
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“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.”
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“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
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“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”
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“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”
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“I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.”
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“This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.”
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“I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that.”
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“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
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“Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.”
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
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“To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?”
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“Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.”
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“It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.”
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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.”
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“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
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“Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.”
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“Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by 'feminist.' In the beginning, I used to say, 'Well, of course I'm a feminist.' But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not.”
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“Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.”
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“Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.”
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“If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?”
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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”
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“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.”
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“While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.”
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“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”
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“Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.”
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“I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that's one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.”
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“I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.”
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“The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.”
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“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.”
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“My dream is to save women from nature.”
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“In the beginning, all of us got 'women type' stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.”
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“Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.”
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“If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.”
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“High heels empower women in a way.”
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“How many thick black women are there singing whatever I'm singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can't really judge someone else for judging me!”
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“What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.”
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“When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.”
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“Empowering women makes weak men.”
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“I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.”
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“When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'”
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“It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.”
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“After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”
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“Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.”
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“The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.”
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“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
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“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”
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“If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.”
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“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.”
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“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”
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“Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.”
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“I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.”
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“I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”
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“Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.”
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“I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.”
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“Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.”
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“Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.”
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“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”
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“I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.”
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“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
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“Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.”
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“All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.”
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“To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.”
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“It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part.”
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“The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.”
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“If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.”
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“Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.”
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“I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.”
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“A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.”
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“People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.”
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“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
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“Whenever people ask me: 'Why didn't you get up when the bus driver asked you?' I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail.”
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“Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.”
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“Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.”
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“Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.”
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“Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.”
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“I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.”
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“The theme of the Labor Department's centennial is 'Then, Now, Next.' So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we've yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.”
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“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
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“Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.”
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“Women want to attract a 'high-value' man. If that's the man you want to attract you have to be high value yourself.”
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“Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.”
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“In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.”
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“I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.”
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“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
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“A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!”
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“Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.”
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“When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well.”
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“Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.”
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“I love seeing women do what they do.”
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“I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.”
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“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.”
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“I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.”
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“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
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“It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.”
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“A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.”
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“I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.”
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“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
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“The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.”
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“If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”
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“Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.”
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“All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.”
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“My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.”
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“When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.”
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“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.”
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“I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.”
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“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
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“Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection.”
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“I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.”
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“Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.”
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“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.”
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“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.”
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“Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.”
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“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.”
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“Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.”
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“For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.”
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“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.”
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“It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.”
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“I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.”
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“African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.”
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“I always play women I would date.”
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“I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.”
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“I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.”
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“Men's vows are women's traitors!”
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“Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.”
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“Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.”
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“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
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“For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.”
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“Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.”
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“Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.”
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“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
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“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”
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“Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.”
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“I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.”
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“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”
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“Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.”
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“Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.”
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“'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.”
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“I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.”
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“If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.”
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“I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.”
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“We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.”
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“If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.”
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“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
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“You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.”
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“Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”