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Woman Quotes


"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."


"Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models."


"As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."


"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."


"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."


"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime."


"I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out."


"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."


"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock."


"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from."


"Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago."


"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."


"We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents."


"The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short."


"No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman."


"The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence."


"Look, a lot of women would be turned off with hearing me say how hot I think Brad Pitt is! Know what I mean? So I probably don't help my cause."


"It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women."


"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women."


"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement."


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


"With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools."


"What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers."


"And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go."


"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded."
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