Women Quotes
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Without networks like the Black Immigration Network, organizations like Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees would not get the support and resources and amplification that their voices that they need and deserve.
Opal Tometi
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney
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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
Emma Thompson
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Karin Slaughter
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It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.
Jim Sensenbrenner
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
Gail Carriger
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
Bea Arthur
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
Ban Ki-moon
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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.
Penelope Wilton
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
Fernando Botero
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara Cartland
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
Frances O'Grady
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People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
Caitlin Moran
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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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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
Katherine Dunn
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A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
Frances O'Grady
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He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.
W. Somerset Maugham
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There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.
Marilyn Monroe
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Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control of important life decisions that are so often decided by others.
Philomena Kwao