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Woman Quotes


"I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?"


"I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed."


"I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest."


"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."


"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."


"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."


"If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty."


"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain."


"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."


"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."


"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."



"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress."


"No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women."


"Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances."


"My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women."


"The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement."


"Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women."


"Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is."


"I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia."



"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."


"The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know."


"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."


"Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him."
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