Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Women Quotes from famous persons: Shakira, Conan O’Brien, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rick Ross, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Women Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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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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Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
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I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries‘ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
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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 consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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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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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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Absolutely, I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history.’
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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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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
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I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn’t very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t know why so many people in America hate Hillary Clinton; I found her to be one of the most gracious, intelligent, perceptive, and, yes, classy women I have ever met.
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Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
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If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.
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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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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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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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
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On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
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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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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.
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Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it’s doing, look at what it’s promoting, look at what it’s condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there’s some sort of Republican War on Women. We don’t do this to women! We don’t objectify women like this.
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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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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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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
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I like women. I love women.
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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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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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Women are the real architects of society.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
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There are many women who came before me who didn’t really have the same opportunities that I have had. That’s why I always wanted to be a great ambassador – not only today‘s generation – but for the women who really didn’t have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
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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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All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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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Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy – which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.
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They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. It’s the same way with women… or at least the ones I want to be with.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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I’m very open and honest, and I feel like it’s important for women to hear that we’re not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would’ve been better off if I’d left myself alone.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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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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Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
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I can hear the roar of women’s silence.
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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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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.
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No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.
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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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The Iowa Women’s Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the first place.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.
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Most women don’t like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.
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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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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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On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
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Women don’t realize how powerful they are.
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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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Women are women, and hurray for that.
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I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
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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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All of our men and women in uniform, including our brave sailors in the U.S. Navy, deserve to have the best tools needed to carry out their mission to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don’t put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don’t put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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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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Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.
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You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
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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 more you win, the brand of women’s cricket will go higher.
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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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The women’s movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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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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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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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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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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All together now: Women don’t cause sexual harassment, harassers do.
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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 think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
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No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
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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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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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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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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 lie about their age; men lie about their income.
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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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In my family, growing up, the women were always the ones who were powerful, and they exuded this charisma of empowerment that I hold onto and always remember. I had some difficult times, but these strong women were always a constant.
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I had a stunt double for ‘The Bronze.’ She’s literally the most amazing human being I’ve ever seen. She’s NCAA women’s gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
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If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
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Black men don’t like to be called ‘boys,’ but women accept being called ‘girls.’
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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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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 made to be loved, not understood.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women.
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Safety and security of women and children will determine the well-being and strength of our nations.
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Women. They are a complete mystery.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Women have to harness their power – its absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
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My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
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I had it all – money, women, fame, cars, yachts, everything a man could want – but it didn’t give my life meaning.
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Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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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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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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America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
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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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Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.
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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 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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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
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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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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
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People say women shouldn’t have long hair over a certain age, but I’ve never done what everyone says.
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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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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there’s not a lens long enough for that.
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I always play women I would date.
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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.
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I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can’t have all of them for myself.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.
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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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The men and women of the Greatest Generation answered the call to serve; whether at home or abroad, they defended the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today.
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Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women’s economic freedom.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in space?
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I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.
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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 may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
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There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
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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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Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that’s not the way men work.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
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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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My mother made me truly appreciate women.
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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
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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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Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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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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Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
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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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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
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Women today have so many opportunities in fields like engineering. The work is new and engineers are making things work, making the impossible possible. I want girls to know about the opportunities out there.
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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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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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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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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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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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As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
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There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.
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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
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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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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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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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It is always the village women who drive these things.
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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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Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.
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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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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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My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.
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Protecting the lives of women in childbirth and in their postpartum months should be a common priority.
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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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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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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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I’ve been in love with both men and women. I’ve been ghosted by both men and women.
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Until Eve arrived, this was a man’s world.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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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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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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I seem to be stuck in the ’60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
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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 predestination to suffering.
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Men and women have roles – their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
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What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
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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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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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We’ve got to get women to sit at the table.
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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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I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
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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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‘The Lady’s World’ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
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I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
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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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I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.
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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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If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
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Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
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Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
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Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember and recognize those who serve and have served our country, as well as those who have died in service. As we reflect, let’s not forget the many sacrifices made at home as well in support of our men and women in uniform.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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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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Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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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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I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
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I just like short hair on women; I think it’s cool.
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Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
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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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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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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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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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Virginity is such a personal thing. You can’t judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they’ll love forever.
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There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
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I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
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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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I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
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As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
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For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It’s very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.
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Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
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The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.
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Women’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.
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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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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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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.
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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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We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.
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I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.
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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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If I had to name one thing that differentiates me from the other women, it’s that I get free stuff at restaurants or get discounts.
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A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.
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It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
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I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
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No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree.
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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
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‘Wonder Woman‘ is much more than a cartoon character. She’s fighting for truth and justice and the secret self that exists in all women and girls. There’s a moral fiber and a goodness about her that all women have.
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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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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I grew up in a time when women didn’t really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny – because it’s powerful; it’s a threat.
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I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we’re held to.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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I like my whisky old and my women young.
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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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Women don’t try to use me.
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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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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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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.
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I don’t know if it’s animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
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Sex hasn’t been the same since women started enjoying it.
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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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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
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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 do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.
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The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.
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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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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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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
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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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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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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
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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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I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
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Women… can’t live with ’em… can’t shoot ’em.
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The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don’t really dress; they are too conservative, as it’s always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
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Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.
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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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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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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 know my name will always be linked with 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?
517
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 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.
519
On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
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What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood – the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.
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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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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn’t we be taking the same risks in space?
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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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Curvy women are gorgeous. All women are gorgeous.
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I dress for women and I undress for men.
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I’m a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.
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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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Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
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I think French women tend to keep it simple. I’d say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.
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Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we’re all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we’re perfect. Frankly, I’m not perfect.
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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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.
538
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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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
540
Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
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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 are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
544
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
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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.
547
We’re getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – we’re renegades.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
549
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.
550
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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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.
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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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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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I don’t call myself a women’s footballer; I say I’m a footballer.
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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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I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can’t belly dance with a flat stomach, so my ideal body would be curvy, womanly and voluptuous.
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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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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
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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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It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.
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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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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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I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.
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The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.
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When women work together, it’s a bond unlike any other.
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There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.
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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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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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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
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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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I feel women with long hair have a completely different charm – they can attract more attention and if I may say so, they look so Indian!
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Women are so complicated, it’s unbelievable.
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I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
610
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
611
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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
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The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
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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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I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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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 can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
