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"I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away."
Ann Rule
"I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away."
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"The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners."
Florence Kelley
"The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners."
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"Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women."
Pedro Almodovar
"Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women."
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
Kate Millett
"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
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"I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch."
Wyclef Jean
"I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch."
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"It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail."
Jeanette Rankin
"It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
P. J. O'Rourke
"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?"
James E. Rogers
"It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?"
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"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime."
Carrie P. Meek
"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime."
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"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."
Jane Campion
"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."
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"With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult."
Neil LaBute
"With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult."
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"Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920."
Louise Slaughter
"Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920."
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"I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart."
Ralph Lauren
"I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart."
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"Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow."
Veronica Franco
"Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow."
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"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."
James Talent
"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."
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"It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes."
Barry Watson
"It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes."
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"It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career."
Michael Douglas
"It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career."
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"Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again."
Liz Carpenter
"Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again."
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"I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere."
Belva Lockwood
"I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere."
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"I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me."
Roy Orbison
"I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me."
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"I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters."
Gilbert Hernandez
"I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters."
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"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture."
Kate Millett
"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture."
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"Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away."
Barbara de Angelis
"Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away."
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"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
Jean Kerr
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
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"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women."
Clara Zetkin
"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women."
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"A slighted woman knows no bounds."
John Vanbrugh
"A slighted woman knows no bounds."
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"I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did."
Courtney Love
"I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did."
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"But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all."
Edith Rogers
"But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all."
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"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."
Mary McCarthy
"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."
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"You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!"
Josh Hartnett
"You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!"
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"The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man."
Otto Weininger
"The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man."
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"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."
Jean Giraudoux
"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."
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"Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning."
Kate Millett
"Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning."
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"A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions."
Picabo Street
"A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions."
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"On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income."
Ginny B. Waite
"On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income."
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"Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with."
Roseanne Barr
"Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with."
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"I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school."
Susan Dey
"I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school."
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"I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people."
Faith Ringgold
"I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people."
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"I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire."
Lynn Westmoreland
"I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire."
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"And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram."
Lynn Redgrave
"And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram."
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"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."
J. B. Priestley
"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."
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"I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving."
Shirley Manson
"I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving."
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"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
Sylvester Stallone
"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
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"Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed."
Terence Fisher
"Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed."
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"Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career."
Jada Pinkett Smith
"Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career."
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"Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted."
Catharine MacKinnon
"Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted."
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"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
Simone de Beauvoir
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
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"Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize."
Valentine de Saint-Point
"Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize."
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"Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture."
Eleanor Clift
"Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture."
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"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
Rita Rudner
"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
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