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"In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place."
Stephen Ambrose
"In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place."
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"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me."
Mickey Rooney
"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me."
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"The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more."
Michelle Rodriguez
"The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more."
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"Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?"
Candice Bergen
"Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?"
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"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"
Dorothy Thompson
"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"
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"Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes."
Joshua Jackson
"Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes."
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"Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy."
Stephanie Mills
"Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy."
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"I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice."
Barbara Bush
"I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice."
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"Women would rather be right than reasonable."
Ogden Nash
"Women would rather be right than reasonable."
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"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
Audre Lorde
"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
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"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."
Gloria Steinem
"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."
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"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."
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"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Ken Follett
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
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"Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect."
Nicholas D. Kristof
"Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect."
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"I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them."
Paul Getty
"I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them."
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"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't."
Audre Lorde
"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't."
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"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine."
Angelina Jolie
"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine."
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"And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport."
Salma Hayek
"And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport."
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"Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it."
Lewis Grizzard
"Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it."
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"I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here."
Elisabeth Rohm
"I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here."
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"The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do."
Howard Dean
"The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do."
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"You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that."
Billy Sunday
"You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that."
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"There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge."
Erica Jong
"There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge."
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"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic."
Stephen Lewis
"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic."
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"If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?"
Anne Hutchinson
"If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?"
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"And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike."
Wanda Sykes
"And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike."
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"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
Elizabeth Moon
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
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"The battle for women's rights has been largely won."
Margaret Thatcher
"The battle for women's rights has been largely won."
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"Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way."
Victoria Pratt
"Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way."
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"You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'"
Marie Osmond
"You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'"
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"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Susan B. Anthony
"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
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"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
Tarja Halonen
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
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"I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems."
Eva Longoria
"I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems."
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"For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband."
Tammy Bruce
"For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband."
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"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."
Erma Bombeck
"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."
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"I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count."
Patricia Ireland
"I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count."
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"There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies."
Sharon Gless
"There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies."
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"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
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"I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman."
Patricia Highsmith
"I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman."
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"I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long."
George Carey
"I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long."
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"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."
William Butler Yeats
"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."
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"There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."
Kin Hubbard
"There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."
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"Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming."
Peter Boyle
"Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming."
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"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world."
Augustus Longstreet
"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world."
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"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"
Bob Geldof
"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"
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"A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking."
Malcolm De Chazal
"A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking."
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"You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on."
Aisha Tyler
"You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on."
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
Aristotle
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
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"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
Tarja Halonen
"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
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"I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims."
Francesca Annis
"I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims."
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