Women Quotes
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I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
Francois Nars
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Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.
Janet Montgomery
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Women try hard to live down to what is expected of them.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.
Claire Messud
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I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.
Jerry Della Femina
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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood
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Women have the right to choose what do with their own bodies. They can take it in the cooch or in the pooper. But that's where their right to choose stops, in my opinion.
Zach Braff
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I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.
Anne Bancroft
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.
Gabrielle Dennis
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Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Frank Crowninshield
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The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.
Jennifer Saunders
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I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.
Carol Leifer
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There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.
Pete Hamill
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A lot of women act like it's the easiest decision, and I'm just going to have a baby and put my life on hold and not be worried about it. Well, I was worried.
Lynsey Addario
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“He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.”
Colin Bateman
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I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action... It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Angelina Jolie
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Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.
Barack Obama
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
N.D. Wilson
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I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.
Alexa Chung
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If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, and let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks.
William Shakespeare
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Katharine Hepburn
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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
Nadine Gordimer