"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."

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"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."

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

"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

"As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible."

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

"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."

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

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"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent."

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