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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).
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“The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.” -Thomas R. Dewar
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“On the political front, of course it’s a zero-sum game. If it’s all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it’s, ‘Women are coming!’ Get 10 blacks and it’s, ‘Blacks are coming!’ ‘Hispanics are coming!’ Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don’t move. In the economy, the number of…
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“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.” -Jeanette Winterson
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“All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.” -Marge Piercy
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“The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.” -Oscar de la Renta
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“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.” -Amelia Earhart
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“Avon is a unique place to work we’ve got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.” -Andrea Jung
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“How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It’s what men have kept secret for so long.” -Steve Harvey
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“Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.” -Peter Ustinov
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“More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.” -Kofi Annan
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“I did a women’s movie, and I’m not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I’m not gay. I learned as I went along.” -Ang Lee
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“Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.” -Kate Smith
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“I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.” -Marie Osmond
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“Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.” -Fanny Brice
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“When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.” -Camryn Manheim
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“I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.” -Christina Aguilera
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“There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.” -Tori Amos
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“In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.” -George Balanchine
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“My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.” -William Allen White
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“I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.” -Jasmine Guy
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“My favorite play in drama school was ‘The Bacchae.’ It’s about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy – it’s related to the word ‘bacchanal’ – and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.” -Hugh Jackman
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“Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They’re not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.” -Eva Herzigova
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“I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.” -Shakira
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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.” -Georges Pompidou
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“Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.” -Grace Kelly
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“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.” -Helen Rowland
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“I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.” -Demi Lovato
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“As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.” -Susan Faludi
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“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.” -Gary Gygax
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“At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” -Shirley Chisholm
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“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.” -Kathryn Bigelow
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“And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it’s really refreshing.” -Jenna Elfman
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“What I’ve learned is you treat women right.” -Tyler Perry
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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.” -Emma Goldman
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“My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.” -Jimmy Carter
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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.” -Gertrude Stein
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“When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.” -Chinua Achebe
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“People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It’s quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.” -Mick Jagger
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“I have crushes on women all the time. I don’t have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.” -Adam Lambert
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“I don’t know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.” -Jeff Bridges
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“Women’s Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.” -Calvin Klein
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“And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.” -Marco Rubio
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“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.” -James Larkin
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“Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.” -Adrienne Rich
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“Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.” -Mel Gibson
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“The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I’ve tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, ‘Let’s get…
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“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” -Rebecca West
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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn’t marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.” -Nicholas Sparks
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“What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” -Susan Sontag
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“With women, I’ve got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can’t get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.” -Marlon Brando
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“I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.” -Carol Alt
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“I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.” -Dennis Rodman
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“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.” -Germaine Greer
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“I’ve seen women who don’t have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.” -Chris Rock
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“Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.” -Scott Adams
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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.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“So many women just don’t know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.” -Gene Tierney
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“A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she’s really attractive.” -Bruce Jay Friedman
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“I’m excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the ’90s there was a lot of hate – the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It’s not so patriarchal these days – there’s more love and a lot less hate!” -Alanis Morissette
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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.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.” -Malcolm De Chazal
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“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.” -Helena Rubinstein
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“I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.” -Robin Williams
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“To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it’s true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.” -Wentworth Miller
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“All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.” -Ric Flair
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“I love surprises – champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.” -Danica McKellar
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“One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.” -Lady Gaga
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“One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.” -Jerry Saltz
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“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.” -Coretta Scott King
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“Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.” -Rita Rudner
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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.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.” -Edvard Munch
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“Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“Women lie about their age men lie about their income.” -William Feather
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“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.” -Fay Weldon
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“I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I’m very proud of that.” -Adele
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“I love the fact that there are also women out there that don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.” -Ann Romney
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“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” -Charlotte Whitton
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“Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.” -Anna Quindlen
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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.” -Golda Meir
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“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.” -Ovid
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“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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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.” -Marie Curie
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“Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men – the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.” -Andrew Cohen
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“I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.” -Babe Ruth
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“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That’s the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.” -Jeff Sessions
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“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.” -Marquis de Sade
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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.” -Molly Ivins
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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.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.” -Erica Jong
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“When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that…
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“I don’t get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.” -Vanessa Marcil
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“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.” -George W. Bush
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“Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to.” -Bill Hicks
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“As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.” -Vera Wang
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“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.” -Gilbert Parker
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“As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.” -Jean Giraudoux
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“The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.” -Franklin P. Adams
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“Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.” -Robin Hayes
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“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.” -Abigail Adams
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“Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.” -Ayrton Senna
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“Most of us women like men, you know it’s just that we find them a constant disappointment.” -Clare Short
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“I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, ‘Where are Middle Eastern women?’” -Kim Kardashian
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“I think that the day you’ve figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you’re no longer attracted to women. It’s the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.” -Kiefer Sutherland
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“I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.” -Gilda Radner
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“The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn’t have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you…
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“A man’s sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.” -Leland Stanford
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“I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.” -David Bailey
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“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.” -Albert Ellis
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“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.” -Virginia Woolf
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“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.” -Bette Davis
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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?” -Jackie Kennedy
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“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.” -Mason Cooley
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“The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world – not his own light, but that of Christ.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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“I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, ‘Why not me?’” -Marianne Williamson
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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.” -Sojourner Truth
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“I like a women who’s got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that’s fine.” -James Hetfield
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“Comedy can be, especially in a writer’s room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It’s not a nurturing place. It’s not like a lot of women are going to say, I can’t wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer’s room until 2 or…
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“There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.” -Steve Martin
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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind…
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“The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.” -A. N. Wilson
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“Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer.” -Spiro T. Agnew
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“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.” -Alice Walker
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“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.” -Earl Warren
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“Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.” -Satchel Paige
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“Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.” -Stendhal
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“Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.” -William Cobbett
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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.” -William Hazlitt
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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.” -Samuel Gompers
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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.” -Augustus Y. Napier
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“Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They’re the best girls in the world – they’re loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they’ll try to kill you.” -John Cusack
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“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.” -Joel Rosenberg
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“Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.” -Andre Maurois
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“I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.” -George Burns
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“If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.” -Doris Day
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“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.” -Elayne Boosler
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“It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends.” -Stephen Fry
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“Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.” -George Raft
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“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.” -E. M. Forster
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“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.” -Jane Austen
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“Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.” -David Ogilvy
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“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they’re killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We’d not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.” -Spike Lee
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“Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.” -Alexander Pope
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“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.” -Washington Irving
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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.” -Joyce Brothers
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“The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.” -Guy de Maupassant
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“Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.” -George Santayana
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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.” -Rudyard Kipling
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“Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.” -Mary J. Blige
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