"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."

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"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."

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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."

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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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"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."

Self

"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness."

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"If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey."

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"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."

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"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."

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"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?"

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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."

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"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."

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"None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue."

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"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."

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