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Woman Quotes


"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me."


"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?"


"I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice."


"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."


"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."


"I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them."


"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."


"I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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.'"


"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."



"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."


"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."


"I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman."


"There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."


"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?"


"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."


"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."


"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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