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"You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led."
Johnny Vegas
"You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led."
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"Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal."
Chantal Kreviazuk
"Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal."
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"Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette."
Bill Blass
"Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette."
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"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
Barbara Jordan
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
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"While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me."
Ginny B. Waite
"While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me."
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"I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten."
Ann Rule
"I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten."
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"I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me."
Bea Arthur
"I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me."
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"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."
Ellen Glasgow
"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."
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"Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations."
Lucy Stone
"Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations."
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"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings."
Irvin S. Cobb
"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings."
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"It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it."
Helen Reddy
"It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it."
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"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."
Etta James
"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."
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"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."
Edna O'Brien
"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."
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"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that."
Kathleen Turner
"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that."
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"I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that."
Julia Louis Dreyfus
"I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that."
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"Most women are one man away from welfare."
Gloria Steinem
"Most women are one man away from welfare."
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"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."
Holly Near
"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."
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"When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other."
Victoria Principal
"When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other."
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"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from."
Edith Rogers
"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from."
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"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out."
Roberta Williams
"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out."
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"There's so much to becoming a woman."
Michael Rosenbaum
"There's so much to becoming a woman."
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"There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices."
Patrick Leahy
"There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices."
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"We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother."
Dana Delany
"We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother."
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"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."
May Sarton
"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."
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"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
Bob Edwards
"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
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"When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable."
Laura Bush
"When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable."
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"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
Groucho Marx
"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
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"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."
Lemuel K. Washburn
"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."
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"I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it."
Joan Allen
"I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it."
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"I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine."
Betty Dodson
"I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine."
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"There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles."
Maureen O'Hara
"There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles."
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"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."
Thomas Fuller
"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."
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"They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today."
Debbie Meyer
"They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today."
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"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement."
Jill Clayburgh
"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement."
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"Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it."
Dianne Feinstein
"Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it."
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"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."
Kristin Scott Thomas
"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."
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"The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius."
Guy de Maupassant
"The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius."
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"I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling."
Naomi Judd
"I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling."
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"It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually)."
Jennifer Wyatt
"It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually)."
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"No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all."
Ginny B. Waite
"No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all."
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"It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery."
John Norman
"It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery."
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"Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own."
Robert Farrar Capon
"Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own."
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"I am always on the women's side."
Mary Chesnut
"I am always on the women's side."
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"There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves."
Leland Stanford
"There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves."
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"I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person."
Melinda Clarke
"I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person."
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"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."
George S. Kaufman
"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."
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"Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking."
David Satcher
"Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking."
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"You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither."
Drew Carey
"You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither."
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"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"
Olympia Dukakis
"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"
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"I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want."
John Galliano
"I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want."
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