Betty Williams Quotes
There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
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If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
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There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
