"Cancers of all types among women are increasing."

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Politician

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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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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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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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

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"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it."

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"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."

Bernard de Mandeville, English Philosopher

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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall."

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