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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 Julie Burchill

"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."

Man

"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."

Life

"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."

Man

"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast."

Pretty

"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."

Fame

"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."

Writing

"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."

Man

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

Life

"Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man."

Woman