Women Quotes
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I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
Jane Gardam
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When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
H. L. Mencken
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Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.
Martha McSally
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
Marilyn French
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We do not yet understand that when we neglect men, we rape women.
Warren Farrell
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
Jane Addams
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Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.
Alice S. Rossi
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
Camille Paglia
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It's just making sure that everyone is treated equally. Is that so progressive? I don't think it's progressive, I think it's human. And not just gay people - women's rights, immigrants, people of different ethnic backgrounds.
Kristian Nairn
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I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.
Deidre Hall
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Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
Bill Blass
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Any society that is silencing its women has no future.
Hafsat Abiola
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Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
Ellen Key
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
William Shakespeare
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
Nancy Astor
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
Audre Lorde
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There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.
Dustin Hoffman
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She did make an extraordinary difference for women as I can tell you from my own personal experience. I well remember the sense of awe when I came to Washington, D.C. ... as a senior in college, sitting across the desk from her. Little did I realize that because of the doors that she opened she would make it possible for me to sit one day at her very desk on the floor of the United States Senate.
Olympia Snowe
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There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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I think California has some very good looking women... I know Stephanie Seymour is from San Diego, and I know Josie Maran - who's my very good friend - she's from Northern California. So I think California produces some good looking women, for sure.
Marisa Miller
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Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.
Elizabeth Warren
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There are many role models I've been around, and kind of the biggest one - there's a show called 'Push Girls,' with all women in wheelchairs, and they're all really good friends of mine. And one, Angela Rockwood, is still modeling, in a wheelchair. After a car accident.
Jamie Brewer
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
Barbara Jordan