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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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“Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.” -Tim Allen
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“Men’s magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women’s magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.” -Richard Roeper
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“The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.” -Wilson Mizner
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“Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.” -Iris Murdoch
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“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that.” -Julie Delpy
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“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” -E. O. Wilson
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“What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.” -Bill Maher
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“A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!” -Billy Sunday
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“There’s a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.” -Samuel Butler
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“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” -Jean Piaget
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“On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.” -James Russell Lowell
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“Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.” -Christian Dior
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“I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.” -Chief Joseph
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.” -Alexei Sayle
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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” -Pope John XXIII
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.” -George Eliot
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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.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” -Pat Robertson
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“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” -Donald Trump
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“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.” -Jon Bon Jovi
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“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.” -John Ruskin
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“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.” -George Jean Nathan
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“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.” -Mary Schmich
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“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she’s strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.” -Jay Leno
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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” -Marcel Proust
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“To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful.” -William Butler Yeats
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“When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that’s not it. It’s a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.” -Mindy Kaling
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“Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.” -Margaret Mead
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“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.” -Geoffrey Chaucer
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“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” -Abraham Maslow
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“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.” -Anita Brookner
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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.” -Marilyn Manson
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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.” -Olivia Munn
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“It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.” -Jim Elliot
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“Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There’s always a desire to please each one.” -Hillary Clinton
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“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.” -Brian Tracy
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“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.” -John Gray
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“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” -Bertrand Russell
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“I like women, but you can’t always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog’s name and then I asked, ‘Does he bite?’ and she said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘So how does he eat?’ Liar!” -Demetri Martin
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“The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.” -Nora Ephron
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“Women: You can’t live with them, and you can’t get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.” -Emo Philips
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“A lot of women don’t know how to love because there’s deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.” -Lil Wayne
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“History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.” -Tim Pawlenty
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“It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.” -Victor Hugo
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“But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.” -W. E. B. Du Bois
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“The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high – and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration,…
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“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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“It’s not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we’re not good enough, that we must live up to someone else’s standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.” -Elle Macpherson
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“Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.” -Carroll O’Connor
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“Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.” -Anna Held
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“I am not a sexy woman, I’m not beautiful, I’m not a sex kitten, I don’t flirt with people, yet I’ve been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that’s solely because I don’t reveal too much: people are curious.” -Shirley Manson
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“I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?” -Elizabeth Taylor
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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.” -Abbe Pierre
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“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.” -Walt Whitman
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“All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.” -W. C. Fields
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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” -H. L. Mencken
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“They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.” -Angelina Jolie
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“I’m quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That’s been my approach, for the most part.” -Orlando Bloom
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“I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.” -Ron Paul
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“I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.” -Reese Witherspoon
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“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.” -Charles…
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“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” -Brendan Behan
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“To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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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.” -Garrison Keillor
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“Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.” -Bill Copeland
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“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.” -Al Goldstein
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“Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.” -Natalie Portman
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“When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, ‘Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?’” -Mitt Romney
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“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.” -Coco Chanel
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“Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.” -Voltaire
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“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.” -Plato
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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.” -Johnny Depp
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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” -Charles V
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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.” -Richard Pryor
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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.” -Will Rogers
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.” -Bill Cosby
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“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.” -Mae West
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“Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.” -Thomas Paine
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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.” -Paulo Coelho
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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.” -Orson Welles
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“I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.” -Will Smith
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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.” -Allen Boyd
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“There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.” -Pablo Picasso
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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.” -Pope John Paul II
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“I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.” -Phyllis Diller
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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.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Men’s vows are women’s traitors!” -William Shakespeare
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“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” -Oscar Wilde
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“The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” -Maya Angelou
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“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.” -Eminem
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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” -C. S. Lewis
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“I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” -John F. Kennedy
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“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” -Aristotle Onassis
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“I don’t love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.” -John Galliano
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“What bugs me is that movies don’t reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don’t treasure women as they get older.” -Jill Clayburgh
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“Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.” -Bernard Williams
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“Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women.” -Deborah Tannen
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“Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.” -Gavin DeGraw
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“Women hear rhythm differently than men.” -Elvis Costello
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“Women have this obsession with shoes.” -Alexandra Paul
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“The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.” -Shirley Knight
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“Were there no women, men might live like gods.” -Thomas Dekker
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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.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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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.” -Isaac Mizrahi
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“Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.” -Daphne du Maurier
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“Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.” -George Byron
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“Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.” -Emma Bonino
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“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.” -Georg Buchner
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“The women’s movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we’ll never be able to count.” -Holly Near
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“Women don’t realize how powerful they are.” -Judith Light
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“I’m surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.” -Christie Hefner
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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.” -Antonia Fraser
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“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.” -Benjamin Spock
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“A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.” -Minna Antrim
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“We’re getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – we’re renegades.” -Lisa Bonet
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“Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.” -Michael Hutchence
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“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.” -Gail Sheehy
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“Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.” -Elizabeth Bowen
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“And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.” -Lara Flynn Boyle
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“A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn’t such a big fan.” -Marion Jones
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“I think women are excellent social critics.” -Laurie Anderson
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“The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love’s a charity ward, you know.” -Lawrence Durrell
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“Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.” -Helen Reddy
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“I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.” -Andrew Cuomo
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“Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.” -Ellen Glasgow
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“I’ll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I’ll always be a feminist.” -Courtney Love
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“Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you’re quite battle-scarred.” -Hugh Grant
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“All issues are women’s issues – and there are several that are just women’s business.” -Eddie Bernice Johnson
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“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.” -Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.” -Angela Davis
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“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.” -John Mason Brown
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“In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.” -George Sand
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“Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.” -Dick Van Dyke
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“It’s incredibly unfair. You don’t see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.” -George Clooney
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“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.” -Alphonse Karr
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“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.” -Henny Youngman
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