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Woman Quotes


"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."


"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."


"It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women."


"Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own."


"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."


"African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases."


"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."


"I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women."


"Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do."


"The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it."


"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."


"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."


"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."


"When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again."


"For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli."


"I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry."


"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do."
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