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Woman Quotes


"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."


"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."


"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."


"NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women."


"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."


"It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me."


"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."


"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."


"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."


"Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married."


"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."


"I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive."


"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it."


"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't."


"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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