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Woman Quotes
"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."
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"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."
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"Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense."
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"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman."
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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."
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"They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good."
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
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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."
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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
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"I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives."
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"New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party."
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"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
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"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
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"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."
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"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
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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."
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"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live."
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"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
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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."
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"The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know."
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"In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms."
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"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it."
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