Honore de Balzac Quotes
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I'm a strong woman.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
