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Woman Quotes


"I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here."


"My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism."


"I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity."


"And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing."


"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."


"I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap."



"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."


"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."


"Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males."


"Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment."


"I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing."


"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."


"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."


"The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before."


"I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess."


"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"


"That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too."


"Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote."


"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."
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