Women Quotes
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
Florence Nightingale
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When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
Victoria Principal
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I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women - at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.
John Keats
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
August Strindberg
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
Zainab Salbi
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
Dan Brown
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
Patricia Riggen
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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
Bea Arthur
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I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.
Garry Shandling
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
Carine Roitfeld
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
Rachel Perry
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In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
Valeria Mazza
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Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
Dan Lipinski
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Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I'm obsessed with the Fenty beauty line. It's like, finally, women of color get good makeup.
Phoebe Robinson
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Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.
Rita Ora
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In all the towns and villages it controls, ISIS has implemented its very conservative version of Sharia. Rules on appearance are strictly enforced: a beard for men, the full veil for women. This is required for the whole population.
Paul Wood
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My wife and I were worried, when we had our firstborn, about how he was going to think of himself in a mostly white neighborhood. Particularly Asian men, I feel, we suffer more than Asian women, because we're told we're not worth anything in general.
John Cho
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Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
Ellen Key
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
Vanessa Marcil
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
E. W. Howe
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I'd been singing since I was 14 and on the road since high school, and I was very independent. Then I was Miss U.S.A. and had to have a chaperone and spent a year opening supermarkets. It was all so silly, wearing a crown and banner when it was the 1970s and women's liberation was everywhere. That was quite a stigma to overcome.
Lynda Carter
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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
Pearl S. Buck