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Woman Quotes
"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
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"As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly."
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"All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers."
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"It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women."
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"The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably."
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"Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt."
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"We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs."
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"I can hear the roar of women's silence."
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"Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive."
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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."
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"The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress."
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"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls."
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"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes."
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"I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM."
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"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
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"Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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