women

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘women’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.” -Samuel Richardson

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  • “I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I’m not a big one for the rules.” -Katherine Heigl

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  • “When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.” -Billie Jean King

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  • “I love women more than anything.” -Vin Diesel

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  • “I don’t think balance is something you get from someone else it’s something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.” -Rachel Weisz

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  • “Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.” -Clare Boothe Luce

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  • “It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.” -Zsa Zsa Gabor

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  • “I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.” -Bell Hooks

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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.” -Adam Sandler

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  • “It’s the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept… It’s not about age. It’s about taste, and it’s about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.” -Ralph Lauren

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  • “Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don’t recognize our own beauty because we’re too busy comparing ourselves to other people.” -Kelly Osbourne

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  • “It’s very hard for a woman in comedy. It’s hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.” -Margaret Cho

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  • “Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.” -Steve Buyer

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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.” -Alice Paul

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  • “The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.” -Jon Meacham

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  • “What people don’t understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher’s wife. From Alberta down to Texas I’ve known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.” -Robert Duvall

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  • “Aren’t women prudes if they don’t and prostitutes if they do?” -Kate Millett

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  • “Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.” -Marguerite Yourcenar

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  • “Men are going to go out on the road and they’re going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don’t.” -Stevie Nicks

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  • “Men don’t know much about women. We do know when they’re happy. We know when they’re crying, and we know when they’re pissed off. We just don’t know in what order these are gonna come at us.” -Evan Davis

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  • “Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.” -Kate Fox

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  • “Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.” -Sandra Day O’Connor

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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.” -Vera Farmiga

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  • “I don’t work a five-day week as a rule, and I’ve managed to fill that time up. It hasn’t been that hard. I volunteer at school. I’m working because I love it. Yet, I don’t not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.” -Deidre Hall

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  • “I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn’t stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.” -Nadia Giosia

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  • “I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.” -Kesha

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  • “I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women – no women, really maybe two or three women – and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just…

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  • “Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.” -Teri Garr

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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.” -Sachin Tendulkar

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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.” -Karen McDougal

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  • “I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!” -Robert Ballard

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  • “It’s so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I’m 50.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “I feel sorry… for people who’ve had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren’t their idea of beautiful and therefore aren’t their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.” -Beth…

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  • “I’m so sick of hearing how there’s no strong roles for women. I don’t care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there’s some depth there.” -Martha Plimpton

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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.” -Cher

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  • “I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.” -Sheryl Sandberg

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  • “I love women’s fashion, but women don’t need me as much as men do. It’s the men who have nothing to wear.” -Roberto Cavalli

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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.” -Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • “You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.” -David Duchovny

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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…

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  • “To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.” -Rudolph Valentino

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  • “What made women’s labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.” -Clara Zetkin

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  • “Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.” -Nancy Pelosi

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  • “Let’s stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.” -Carrie P. Meek

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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.” -Grover Cleveland

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  • “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.” -Herbert Hoover

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  • “Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.” -Karen Horney

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  • “I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That’s not to say they’re not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.” -Mark Davis

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  • “God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.” -Mary Harris Jones

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  • “Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.” -Anna Freud

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  • “Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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  • “Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.” -Larry Craig

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  • “Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo – Jo being the writer and the misfit.” -Patti Smith

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  • “I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.” -Seann William Scott

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  • “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” -Saul Bellow

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  • “Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it’s almost disgusting to fall in love.” -Kristin Scott Thomas

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  • “Because of what’s going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don’t need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.” -Michael Kors

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  • “You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can’t say I do like it very much.” -Doris Lessing

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  • “We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we’re just kind of there now.” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “Respecting other people’s cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It’s indefensible.” -Jello Biafra

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  • “I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.” -Neil LaBute

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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.” -Billy Joel

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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.” -Mike Honda

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  • “As to honor – you know – it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn’t theirs.” -Joseph Conrad

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  • “The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.” -George William Curtis

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  • “The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.” -Andrea Dworkin

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  • “You can’t leave out half the world’s experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • “Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it’s not real at all.” -Shirley MacLaine

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  • “Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.” -Julia Roberts

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  • “Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.” -Maria Sharapova

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  • “The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.” -Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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  • “I also use women as a sex object maybe I’m kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.” -Oliver Reed

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  • “I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing – like showering.” -Yakov Smirnoff

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  • “To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.” -Solomon Ortiz

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  • “Men’s need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.” -Marilyn French

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  • “In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker’s party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.” -Sloane Crosley

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  • “America’s finest – our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.” -Sarah Palin

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  • “No one knows ‘men’ as such, any more than anyone knows ‘women,’ and if they do generalise they’re probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one ‘man,’ yes, or even lots of individual ‘men’.” -Julie Burchill

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  • “I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family… they are nearly always seen as victims.” -Francesca Annis

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  • “Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.” -Vivienne Westwood

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  • “Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.” -Marya Mannes

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  • “Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help – because they grew as they served.” -Clayton Christensen

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  • “Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.” -Florence Nightingale

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  • “Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.” -Bill Vaughan

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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.” -Maurice Sendak

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  • “You can’t be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren’t ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn’t working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.” -Emma Thompson

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  • “When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, ‘This is just dumb.’” -Louis C. K.

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  • “I wouldn’t want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I’m terrified that they might end up with someone like me.” -Antonio Banderas

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  • “Women are still second-class citizens.” -Joan Jett

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  • “I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.” -Francois Truffaut

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  • “Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.” -Marguerite Duras

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  • “There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.” -Jack Nicholson

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  • “There are women who take it to the wire. That’s what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.” -Sean Connery

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  • “The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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  • “I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960’s.” -Carol P. Christ

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  • “I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.” -Lisa See

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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.” -Keanu Reeves

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  • “What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political…

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  • “Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.” -Muhammad Yunus

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  • “People identify with me – everyone does – African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I’m ethnic.” -Janice Dickinson

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  • “All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.” -Mitch…

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  • “I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.” -Loretta Lynn

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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.” -Toni Morrison

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  • “I think older women still have a full life.” -Betty White

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  • “Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.” -Warren Farrell

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  • “The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can’t grow old in television news.” -Jessica Savitch

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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.” -Isabel Allende

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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.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

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  • “A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.” -Henry James

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  • “I’m 18 in this album. I’m not losing fans, and I’m not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.” -Chris Brown

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  • “Americans like fat books and thin women.” -Russell Baker

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  • “Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where’s that going to get ’em? Besides divorce court?” -Dan Savage

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  • “Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.” -Catherine Deneuve

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  • “I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can’t think of a better nation on the planet.” -Drew Curtis

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  • “We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.” -Suze Orman

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  • “No one knows what women want!” -Ian Somerhalder

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  • “My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren’t created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.” -Camille Paglia

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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.” -Susan B. Anthony

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  • “Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.” -Rick Perry

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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.” -Zoe Saldana

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  • “I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.” -Eddie Izzard

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  • “I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.” -Noam Chomsky

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  • “Older women are like aging strudels – the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.” -Robert Farrar Capon

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  • “Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.” -Jennifer Granholm

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  • “I’ve been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.” -Rod Stewart

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  • “A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.” -Morris Chestnut

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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.” -Wangari Maathai

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  • “Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.” -Taslima Nasrin

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  • “All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.” -Megan Fox

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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.” -Ann Coulter

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  • “With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.” -Betsey Johnson

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  • “Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.” -John Calvin

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  • “The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.” -Casey Stengel

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  • “The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.” -Ashley Montagu

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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…

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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.” -Margaret Sanger

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  • “Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.” -Billy Crystal

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  • “I gravitate toward women.” -Liam Neeson

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  • “You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they’re both on fire – they’re exactly alike.” -Dave Attell

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  • “Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.” -Bill Blass

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  • “If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.” -Gloria Steinem

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  • “When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.” -Audre Lorde

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  • “I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.” -Madeleine Albright

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  • “Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.” -Salma Hayek

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  • “Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.” -Jean Kerr

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  • “In their 30s women really start to live… they’re not children anymore, and they’re not just mothers.” -Kelly Lynch

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  • “Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.” -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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  • “Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.” -Veronica Franco

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  • “I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.” -Andie MacDowell

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  • “No one wants to see curvy women.” -Karl Lagerfeld

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  • “In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.” -Shania Twain

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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.” -Bessie Coleman

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  • “I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.” -James…

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  • “Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.” -Brigitte Bardot

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  • “It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.” -Bela Lugosi

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  • “The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.” -Jose Marti

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  • “Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.” -Larry David

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  • “Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.” -Edwin Louis Cole

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  • “A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.” -Ninon de L’Enclos

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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.” -Leonard Cohen

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  • “I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it’s women who throw their underwear at me when I’m performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at…

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  • “Most women are not as young as they are painted.” -Max Beerbohm

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  • “The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people’s basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.” -Gro Harlem Brundtland

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  • “I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.” -Cicely Tyson

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  • “Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.” -Mark Dayton

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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.” -Amy Poehler

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  • “We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us – a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.” -Ted Cruz

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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.” -Jane Campion

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  • “Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.” -Havelock Ellis

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  • “The runway symbolizes something in society that’s very intimidating to women.” -Tyra Banks

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  • “Women would rather be right than reasonable.” -Ogden Nash

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  • “Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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  • “The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.” -Joseph Ratzinger

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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.” -Miguel de Cervantes

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  • “Some women can’t say the word lesbian… even when their mouth is full of one.” -Kate Clinton

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  • “A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.’” -Conan O’Brien

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  • “The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.” -Sargent Shriver

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