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Woman Quotes

"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."

"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."

Betty Friedan, American Activist

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"I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall."

"I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall."

Donna Mills, American Actress

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"If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families."

"If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families."

Adriana Lima, Brazilian Model

Woman, Women, Babies, Brazil, Poor

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"I like my whisky old and my women young."

"I like my whisky old and my women young."

Errol Flynn, Australian Actor

Woman, Women, Old

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"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Woman, Women, Contempt, Vanity

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"They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good."

"They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good."

Angie Stone, American Musician

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"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain."

"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain."

Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian Criminal

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"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."

"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."

Clara Zetkin, German Politician

Woman, Women, Economics, Rights, Injustice

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"There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible."

"There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

Woman, Women, Awareness

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"There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm."

"There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm."

Beverly Sills, American Musician

Woman, Women, Strength

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"Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts."

"Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts."

John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer

Woman, Women, Gods, Tea, Water

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"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."

"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."

Eminem, American Musician

Woman, Women, Hate

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"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."

"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."

Babe Ruth, American Athlete

Woman, Women, Bed, Drinking, Fun

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"Americans like fat books and thin women."

"Americans like fat books and thin women."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Woman, Women, Americans, Books

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"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood."

"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood."

Denzel Washington, American Actor

Woman, Women, African, Hollywood

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"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."

"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."

Helena Rubinstein, Polish Businessman

Woman, Women, Ugly

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"A woman is a woman!"

"A woman is a woman!"

Heidi Klum, German Model

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"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

Rod Stewart, Scottish Musician

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"I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves."

"I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves."

Leah Ward Sears, American Judge

Woman, Women, People, Children, World

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"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."

"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

Woman, Women, People, Friends

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"We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty."

"We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty."

Robert Casey, American Politician

Woman, Women, Abortion, Children, Poverty

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"I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful."

"I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

Woman, Women, Idea, Being, Want

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"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."

"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."

Dorothy Allison, American Writer

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"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations."

"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations."

Marge Piercy, American Writer

Woman, Women, World

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"With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes."

"With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes."

Marlon Brando, American Actor

Woman, Women, End

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"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."

"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."

Helen Garner, Australian Novelist

Woman, Women, Violence

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"Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one."

"Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one."

Kate Clinton, American Comedian

Woman, Women, Lesbian, Word

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"When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria."

"When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria."

Cybill Shepherd, American Actress

Woman, Women, Help, Saying

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"I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering."

"I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering."

Yakov Smirnoff, Russian Comedian

Woman, Women, Dream, American, Girls

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"The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl."

"The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl."

Lauren Graham, American Actress

Woman, Women, Wife, Suffering

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"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women."

"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women."

Tipper Gore, American Celebrity

Woman, Women, Society, Americans, Dieting

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"Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it."

"Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it."

Barbara Ehrenreich, American Writer

Woman, Women, Man, Years

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"Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now."

"Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Woman, Women, Career, Now, Relationships

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"Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."

"Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."

George Clooney, American Actor

Woman, Women, Drugs, Office

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"I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that."

"I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that."

Laura Dern, American Actress

Woman, Women, Mother, Work

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"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion."

"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion."

Margaret Sanger, American Activist

Woman, Women, Care, Children, Class

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"Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens."

"Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Woman, Women, Children, Existence, Vote

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"In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy."

"In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy."

Sally Kirkland, American Actress

Woman, Women, Europe

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"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress."

"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress."

Helene Deutsch, American Psychoanalyst

Woman, Women, Progress, Freedom, Rights

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"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons."

"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."

"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."

Abigail Adams, American First Lady

Woman, Women, Heroes

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"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."

Katharine Hepburn, American Actress

Woman, Women, Sex

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"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"

"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"

Patricia Clarkson, American Actress

46

"Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due."

"Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due."

James Cook, British Explorer

Woman, Women, Composers, Musicians

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"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."

Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher

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"We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something."

"We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something."

Charlotte Bunch, American Activist

Woman, Women, Vision, Leaders

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"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."

"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Woman, Women, Today

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"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."

"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."

Lord Kelvin, Irish Scientist

Woman, Women, Performance, Horses, Race

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"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me."

"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me."

Portia de Rossi, Australian Actress

Woman, Women, Sex, Girls, School

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"What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."

"What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."

Kenneth Tynan, English Critic

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