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"I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with."
Fred Ward
"I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with."
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"With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated."
Jenny Shipley
"With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated."
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"This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest."
Henny Youngman
"This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest."
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"There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth."
Sue Wicks
"There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth."
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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 did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along."
Ang Lee
"I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along."
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"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."
Calvin Klein
"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."
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"I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it."
Shirley MacLaine
"I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it."
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"Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals."
Elizabeth Schwartz
"Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals."
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"I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women."
Richard Adams
"I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women."
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"In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top."
Sarah Michelle Gellar
"In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top."
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"I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered."
Andrew Cuomo
"I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered."
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"And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual."
Pia Zadora
"And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual."
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"I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them."
Fred Savage
"I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them."
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"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."
Naomi Wolf
"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."
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"You would never expect a black woman to be the hero."
Sanaa Lathan
"You would never expect a black woman to be the hero."
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"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."
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"Women have this obsession with shoes."
Alexandra Paul
"Women have this obsession with shoes."
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"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."
Margaret Mead
"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."
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"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."
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"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."
Ken Follett
"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."
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"No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree."
W. C. Fields
"No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree."
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"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory."
Martha Gellhorn
"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory."
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"Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action."
Morris Chestnut
"Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action."
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"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television."
Katherine Moennig
"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television."
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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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"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."
Helen Reddy
"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."
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"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."
Margaret Mead
"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."
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"I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls."
Delta Burke
"I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls."
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"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."
bell hooks
"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."
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"Woman absent is woman dead."
Walter Bagehot
"Woman absent is woman dead."
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"No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it."
Andrea Dworkin
"No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it."
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"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
Carol Ann Duffy
"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
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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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"Women aren't as mere as they used to be."
Walt Kelly
"Women aren't as mere as they used to be."
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"I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women."
Louis XIV
"I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women."
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"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
Farrah Fawcett
"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
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"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."
Lord Kelvin
"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."
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"A woman is subject matter enough."
Claude Chabrol
"A woman is subject matter enough."
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"I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there."
Martha Plimpton
"I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there."
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"I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language."
Loretta Lynn
"I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language."
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"The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence."
Jenny Shipley
"The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence."
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"I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times."
Kate Clinton
"I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times."
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"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
Elizabeth Bowen
"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
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"Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it."
Lucy Liu
"Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it."
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"What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?"
Charlotte Ross
"What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?"
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"The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with."
Clare Boothe Luce
"The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with."
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"Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants."
Carol P. Christ
"Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants."
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"I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume."
Kelly Hu
"I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume."
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"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
Calvin Klein
"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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