Women Quotes
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Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
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Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.
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I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
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You women are all the same. You worry about the wrinkles and the half stone and your boobs dropping, but you don’t worry about the sparkle, and that’s the best bit. You shouldn’t let that go.
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They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.
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Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
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I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.
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Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.
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I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.
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I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
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I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful.
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Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
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Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.
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Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.
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The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
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Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.
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Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.
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Women love to change – this is our game.
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I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.
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I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.
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Women too often say to themselves, 'It's too difficult. I'm not going to get there.' I tell them: 'Listen: do not question your abilities. Dare to do what you want to do and realize that you can do it.'
