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Woman Quotes

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"Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance."
Pepper Schwartz
"Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance."
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"A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring."
Sara Teasdale
"A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring."
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"I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious."
Shirley Manson
"I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious."
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"It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret."
James Denton
"It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret."
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"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."
Betty Ford
"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."
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"Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so."
Rob Schneider
"Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so."
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"The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds."
Freda Adler
"The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds."
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"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."
Anna H. Shaw
"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."
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"Woman is at once apple and serpent."
Heinrich Heine
"Woman is at once apple and serpent."
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"The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure."
Patty Duke
"The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure."
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"And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them."
Helen Rowland
"And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them."
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"But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture."
Katherine Dunn
"But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture."
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"On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat."
Jenny Shipley
"On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat."
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"NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women."
Jenny Shipley
"NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women."
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"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders."
Ida B. Wells
"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders."
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"Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman."
Corita Kent
"Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman."
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"At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns."
Dennis Rodman
"At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns."
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"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."
Mark Twain
"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."
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"I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English."
Paz Vega
"I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English."
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"Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts."
Lucille Ball
"Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts."
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"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours."
Anna Freud
"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours."
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"When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process."
Ginny B. Waite
"When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process."
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"It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me."
Taye Diggs
"It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me."
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"Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment."
Agnes Smedley
"Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment."
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"It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am."
Elle Macpherson
"It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am."
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"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."
Brigitte Bardot
"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."
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"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."
Juvenal
"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."
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"Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married."
Errol Flynn
"Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married."
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"But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either."
Teresa de Lauretis
"But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either."
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"It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?"
Julia Louis Dreyfus
"It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?"
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"So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew."
Majel Barrett
"So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew."
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"I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive."
Yancy Butler
"I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive."
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"The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women."
Alice Paul
"The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women."
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"Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly."
George Raft
"Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly."
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"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact."
Andrea Dworkin
"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact."
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"They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims."
Ralph Lauren
"They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims."
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"The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that."
Emeric Pressburger
"The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that."
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"I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine."
James Hetfield
"I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine."
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"In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy."
Adrienne Barbeau
"In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy."
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"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it."
Andrea Dworkin
"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it."
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"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
Marge Piercy
"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
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"When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore."
Matt Dillon
"When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore."
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"God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
Farrah Fawcett
"God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
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"I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void."
Marie Osmond
"I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void."
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"And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't."
Lara Flynn Boyle
"And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't."
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"Women hold up half the sky."
Mao Tse Tung
"Women hold up half the sky."
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"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."
Constance Baker Motley
"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."
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"A charming woman is a busy woman."
Loretta Young
"A charming woman is a busy woman."
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"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
Shana Alexander
"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
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"I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress."
Kathleen Turner
"I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress."
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