Woman Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
Madeleine Albright
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Woman is the window through which we see the world.
Georges Rodenbach -
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.
Socrates -
I don't think many people have met someone like me. I don't think the world gets to see too many women like me, and I enjoy being that woman.
Princess Nokia -
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry -
There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'
Valentina Tereshkova -
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Mary Astell
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
Octavia Spencer -
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King -
There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
There are two sorts of affection – the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.
Arthur Wing Pinero -
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.
Rajneesh -
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
Malala Yousafzai
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford -
It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
Rachel Bloom -
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
Kate Clinton -
A Woman never looks better than on horseback...
Jane Austen
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
Rachel Shelley -
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
Fannie Hurst -
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
Fatema Mernissi -
I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
Edgardo Osorio