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"Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible."
Jello Biafra
"Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible."
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"She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good."
Gilbert Parker
"She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good."
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"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it."
Judy Chicago
"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it."
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"You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially."
Mary Stuart Masterson
"You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially."
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"Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever."
Rosa DeLauro
"Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever."
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"It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women."
Rosanna Arquette
"It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women."
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"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."
Mary Astell
"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."
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"Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty."
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
"Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty."
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"Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own."
Louise Slaughter
"Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own."
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"Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women."
Fanny Kemble
"Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women."
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"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid."
Antonia Fraser
"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid."
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"African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases."
Elijah Cummings
"African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases."
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"The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss."
Casey Stengel
"The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss."
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"We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote."
Alice Paul
"We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote."
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"Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help."
Phyllis Schlafly
"Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help."
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"In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women."
Ginny B. Waite
"In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women."
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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
Simone de Beauvoir
"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
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"I married beneath me, all women do."
Nancy Astor
"I married beneath me, all women do."
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"I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women."
Joe Shuster
"I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women."
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"This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different."
Alice Paul
"This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different."
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"Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do."
Anna Held
"Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do."
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"I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen."
Patti LaBelle
"I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen."
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"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married."
Gloria Steinem
"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married."
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"The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it."
Victoria Billings
"The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it."
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"I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited."
Sandra Oh
"I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited."
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"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."
Henry James
"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."
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"Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system."
Gwyneth Paltrow
"Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system."
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"There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed."
Isabella Rossellini
"There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed."
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"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."
Satish Kumar
"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."
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"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."
Mary Kay Ash
"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."
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"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
Arthur Golden
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
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"A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness."
Leland Stanford
"A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness."
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"I'm into women. I've always loved women."
David Gest
"I'm into women. I've always loved women."
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"When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again."
Leon Blum
"When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again."
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"With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed."
Judy Chicago
"With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed."
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"The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves."
Stanley Baldwin
"The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves."
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"Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?"
George Gershwin
"Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?"
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"Silence is an ornament for women."
Sophocles
"Silence is an ornament for women."
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"For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli."
John Conyers
"For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli."
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"I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry."
Suzi Quatro
"I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry."
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"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
Harri Holkeri
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
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"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."
Felicity Kendal
"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."
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"It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad."
Judith Rossner
"It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad."
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"If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean."
Torrie Wilson
"If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean."
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"It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour."
Ann Wilson
"It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour."
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"I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people."
James Ellroy
"I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people."
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"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."
Queen Marie of Romania
"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."
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"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful."
Robin Morgan
"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful."
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"One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that."
George Carey
"One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that."
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"Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do."
Sherilyn Fenn
"Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do."
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