Women Quotes
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Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
Michael Mullen
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Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
Pythagoras
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Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.
Arsene Houssaye
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All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.
Isabelle Holland
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Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.
Amy Richards
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The push for 'Meatless Mondays' in our military is misguided at best and goes against dietary guidelines. Our men and women in uniform should have the option to consume the protein they need, including meat, on a daily basis.
Joni Ernst
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
Lynn Nottage
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I think, fundamentally, Man Repeller is a voice for women to connect with; they can come and try it on for size and be a part of it, and if it works for them, they take it with them.
Leandra Medine
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I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
Lena Dunham
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Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.
Lauren Lapkus
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Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.
Asma Barlas
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Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
inner trust.
Elizabeth Noble
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With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.
Neil LaBute
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I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
Kathleen Turner
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
Jamie Foxx
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We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
Ban Ki-moon
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We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.
Nell Scovell
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We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask you to fight, to sacrifice, to risk your lives for your country. The last thing you should have to do is fight for a job when you come home.
Barack Obama
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
W. H. Auden
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.