Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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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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As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
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My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.
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I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.
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We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.
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A literary woman's best critic is her husband.
