Woman Quotes
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?
Erica Jong
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I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.
Renata Tebaldi
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I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
Nina Totenberg
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Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.
Aja Monet
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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
Rudyard Kipling
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I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
Susan Hayward
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Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.
Bonnie St. John
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In civilized societies today … clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
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There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.
Will Cotton
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Men are always good to fools and perfect idiots,” cried Henny impatiently. “A man will run ten miles from a woman with sense.
Christina Stead
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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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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge Piercy
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There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero.
Alana de la Garza
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord Byron
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You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.
Borden Chase
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The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.
William Blake
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.
Boy George Culture Club
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The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.
Whitney Chadwick
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You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.
Elaine S. Dalton
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A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel
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If you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!
Ellen Buckingham Mathews
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
George Bernard Shaw