Woman Quotes
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.
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It's hard making a woman your wife when you've been humpin married women for most of your life.
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... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.
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The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
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Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.
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The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.
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A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.
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A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!
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I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.
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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
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You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs.
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With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'
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I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.
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I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
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I’ve carried a torch of hatred for my mother for so long now that it’s hard to even see beyond the straw woman I’ve made of her.
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.
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As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level.
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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
