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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."

Gloria Swanson, American Actress

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Explore more quotes by Edna O'Brien

"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."

Time

"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."

Guilt

"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."

Soul

"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

Relationship

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

Nation

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."

Friendship

"Writing is like carrying a fetus."

Writing

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

Work

"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."

Woman