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Woman Quotes


"In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms."


"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it."


"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."


"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?"


"What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things."


"Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents."


"I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better."


"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."


"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."


"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."


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


"We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty."


"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you."


"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."


"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."


"I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with."


"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."


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


"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."


"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why."


"For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online."


"Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep."


"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."


"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."


"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet."


"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"
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