Women Quotes
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Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.
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Women are men without money.
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I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
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It’s not just about beauty standards. It also really translates to socioeconomic status for women in many developing countries across the world
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My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.
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He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
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Women love to change – this is our game.
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It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. Donald Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.
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Like a child, too, he was warm, unaffected, and selfish. He had the combination, irresistible to women, of ruthlessness and tenderness.
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I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.
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The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
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The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
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Women can’t advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls.
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
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Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.
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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
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We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.
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What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well.
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I think we’re men and women more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
