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"I think women are excellent social critics."
Laurie Anderson
"I think women are excellent social critics."
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"I avoid crazy women."
Jeremy London
"I avoid crazy women."
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"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings."
Irvin S. Cobb
"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings."
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"Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due."
James Cook
"Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due."
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"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."
Baltasar Gracian
"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."
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"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?"
Michael Douglas
"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?"
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"I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die."
Suzanne Somers
"I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die."
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"I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may."
Jarvis Cocker
"I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may."
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"A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't."
Suzanne Fields
"A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't."
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"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."
Elizabeth Montagu
"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."
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"Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode."
Blair Underwood
"Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode."
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"They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that."
Andy Garcia
"They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that."
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"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."
Tobey Maguire
"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."
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"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40."
James Thurber
"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40."
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"Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help."
Phyllis Schlafly
"Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help."
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"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not."
Adam Sandler
"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not."
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"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."
Coco Chanel
"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."
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"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
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"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."
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"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."
William Butler Yeats
"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."
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"According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman."
John Norman
"According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman."
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"My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!"
Christopher Eccleston
"My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!"
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"Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package."
Sherilyn Fenn
"Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package."
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"They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India."
Kate Clinton
"They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India."
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"Women hold up half the sky."
Mao Tse Tung
"Women hold up half the sky."
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"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women."
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"Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems."
Gene Tierney
"Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems."
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"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."
Tacitus
"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."
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"Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised."
Daniel Pinkwater
"Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised."
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"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
John Lennon
"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
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"But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities."
Anita Hill
"But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities."
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"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."
Andrea Jung
"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."
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"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."
Ovid
"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."
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"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."
Christopher Morley
"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."
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"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."
Voltaire
"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."
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"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."
Brigitte Bardot
"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."
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"When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy."
Taryn Manning
"When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy."
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"A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix."
Delta Burke
"A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix."
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"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
Pat Robertson
"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
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"Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them."
Kristin Davis
"Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them."
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"Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face."
Susan Estrich
"Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face."
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"What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers."
Flora Tristan
"What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers."
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"God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies."
Mary Harris Jones
"God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies."
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"I am woman, hear me bitch."
Craig Bruce
"I am woman, hear me bitch."
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"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
Erich von Stroheim
"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
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"Women don't realize how powerful they are."
Judith Light
"Women don't realize how powerful they are."
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"Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors."
Suzanne Fields
"Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors."
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"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
Shakira
"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
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"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
Gilda Radner
"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
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"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."
Catherine Zeta-Jones
"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."
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