Jane Austen Quotes

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

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• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  

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• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

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• The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

  

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• I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

  

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• Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

  

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• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

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• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

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• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

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• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  

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• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  

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• We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

  

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• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

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• Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.

  

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• The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

  

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• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

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• The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

  

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• Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

  

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• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  

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• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

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• I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

  

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  

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• So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

  

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

  

  Jane Austen
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  • Single