Woman Quotes
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One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.
Scarlett Johansson -
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
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A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
Oscar Wilde -
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac -
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
Barbara Billingsley -
If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
Olivia Wilde -
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi
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You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'
Louis Armstrong -
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
Parker Posey -
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
Jane Austen -
I am a woman above everything else.
Jackie Kennedy -
In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.
Rainbow Rowell
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
Eddie Izzard -
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
Katha Pollitt -
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson -
It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
Lasse Hallstrom -
Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
Ida Lupino -
Being a woman in a male-dominated industry is difficult at times. I've had people offer to help me, but it's hard to know who to trust.
Saweetie -
Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
Garry Shandling -
I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
Tawni O'Dell