Woman Quotes
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A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
Elsie de Wolfe
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen
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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge Piercy
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Although I felt I was changed, I had remained the disciplined person who had never avoided anything. And besides, I said to myself, what can she do to me? I'm a woman, not a child. At most she'll bring something good to eat.
Elena Ferrante
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I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
Elizabeth Bennett
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
Edwidge Danticat
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare
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[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
Charles Dickens
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Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
Nelson Algren
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What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because most cinema is really made for men, how can you create cinema that's for women without having it be relegated to a ghetto of "chick flick" or something like that?
Anna Biller
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A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.
Homer
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“Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I’d be a better daughter for him than she is.
Brian Morton
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I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.
Charlotte Bronte
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The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.
Steve Jobs
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But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know...
Ina May Gaskin
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Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
Nicole Beharie
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore de Balzac
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
George Bernard Shaw
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Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
Katharine Hepburn
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Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
Hillary Clinton
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You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
Bernardino of Siena