"A woman is a poem, a man is a report."

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"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Women are binding and men are commanding."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Gender, Power, Truth, Today, Inspirational

"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, Brazilian Novelist

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"When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don't bash them and never love them."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the patriarchal masculinity they found so problematic. The individual men who did take on the mantle of a feminist notion of male liberation did so only to find that few women respected this shift. Once the 'new man' that is the man changed by feminism was represented as a wimp, as overcooked broccoli dominated by powerful females who were secretly longing for his macho counterpart, masses of men lost interest."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the dragon and the witch was in them and not in the world."

Robin Sacredfire, Portuguese Philosopher

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"Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Gender, Life, Observation, Reality

"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer."

Peace

"When something looks impossible, don't give up without testing its impossibility."

Possibility

"The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for."

Legacy

"Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof."

Destiny

"A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it."

Heroism

"Even if everybody says it's impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying."

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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."

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"An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate."

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"Truth was not meant to be told but found."

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