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Woman Quotes


"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."


"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."


"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part."


"I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it."


"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women."


"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."


"We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us."


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


"In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work."


"With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured."


"I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring."


"The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth."


"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."


"As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."


"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."


"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."


"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."


"On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing."


"I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out."


"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock."


"I think women are too valuable to be in combat."


"There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force."
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