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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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"I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative."
Richard Brautigan
"I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative."
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"Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso."
Clark Gable
"Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso."
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"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
Loretta Young
"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
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"If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?"
Morning Star
"If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?"
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"It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys."
Tom Stewart
"It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys."
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"French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that."
Charlotte Rampling
"French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that."
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"A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted."
Dorothy Height
"A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted."
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"I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms."
Usher Raymond
"I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms."
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"The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault."
Louise Slaughter
"The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault."
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"I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack."
Molly Ringwald
"I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack."
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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
Gloria Steinem
"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."
Gloria Steinem
"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."
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"It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth."
Susan Collins
"It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth."
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"We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses."
Rob Simmons
"We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses."
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"Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth."
Phyllis Schlafly
"Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth."
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"I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all."
Sandra Bernhard
"I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all."
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"My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems."
Judith Krantz
"My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems."
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"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."
Sloan Wilson
"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."
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"Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old."
Shelagh Delaney
"Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old."
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"Let's face it, there are no plain women on television."
Anna Ford
"Let's face it, there are no plain women on television."
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"Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it."
Agnes Macphail
"Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it."
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"While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women."
Mark Kennedy
"While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women."
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"I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women."
Stevie Smith
"I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women."
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
Virginia Woolf
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
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"Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear."
Mary Church Terrell
"Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear."
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"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
Daniel Defoe
"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
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"Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."
Christian Dior
"Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
Henrietta Szold
"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
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"In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women."
Hugo Claus
"In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women."
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"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."
Christian Dior
"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."
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"I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine."
Nancy Reagan
"I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine."
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"A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are."
Chauncey Depew
"A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are."
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"When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable."
Benjamin Spock
"When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable."
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"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"
Susan B. Anthony
"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"
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"But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service."
John Galliano
"But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service."
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"It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed."
Morning Star
"It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed."
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"Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable."
Gavin DeGraw
"Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable."
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"In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making."
Carol P. Christ
"In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making."
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"These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that."
Brian Welch
"These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that."
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"There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall."
Henry Hyde
"There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall."
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"When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women."
Victoria Principal
"When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women."
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"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down."
Angelina Grimke
"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down."
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"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."
Donald Rumsfeld
"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."
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"Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children."
John Gibbon
"Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children."
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"This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears."
Emily Murphy
"This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears."
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"No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends."
Cheryl Tiegs
"No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends."
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"My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them."
Lynda Carter
"My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them."
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