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Woman Quotes


"I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy."


"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."


"If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule."


"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."


"Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women."


"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."


"Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that."



"Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures."


"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house."


"There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that."


"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."



"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."


"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."


"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded."


"I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'"


"America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future."


"Cancers of all types among women are increasing."


"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."


"The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered."


"My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism."


"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."


"And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing."


"Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor."
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