Women Quotes
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He didn't want her the way he generally wanted women, to feel them under him, to turn them over, turn them again, open them up, break them, step on them, and crush them. He didn't want her in order to have sex and then forget her. He wanted the subtlety of her mind with all its ideas. He wanted her imagination. And he wanted her without ruining her, to make her last.
Elena Ferrante
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The accumulation of experience gives you a debt in terms of compassion. I am very fortunate, and I feel dedicated to giving back to other women. Wherever I am now, I make sure I visit a women's shelter. But I don't want to do it in a frivolous way.
Nicole Kidman
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We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.
Hillary Clinton
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen
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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
Elizabeth Lesser
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No woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
George Gibson Coote
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Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
George Eliot
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I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.
Sean Connery
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
Eve Ensler
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.
Eve Ensler
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Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Gertrude Atherton
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Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige
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Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.
Hillary Clinton
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I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Women can’t advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls.
Beverly Jenkins
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The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.
Lynsey Addario
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Women are men without money.
Paul Samuelson
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I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office. I'm a huge supporter of on-site child care. You need much more sensitivity in the workplace to the challenges young women go through in trying to do two very difficult jobs well.
Hillary Clinton
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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
Sharon Gless
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I think a lot of women have felt really powerless.
Bozoma Saint John
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I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Sarah Addison Allen