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Woman Quotes


"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."


"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."


"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."


"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings."


"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."


"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."


"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."


"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."


"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."


"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."


"Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it."


"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."


"It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery."


"Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own."


"I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person."


"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."


"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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