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"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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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."
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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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Personal Development
"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
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"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."
Woman
"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."
Experience
"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you."
Love
"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."
Values
"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her."
Woman
"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."
Age
"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."
Mother
"Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work."
Work
"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."
Husband
"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness."
Life
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