Woman Quotes
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She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.
Elena Ferrante -
I'm proud to be a woman running for president.
Hillary Clinton
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A woman knows her children's friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are thinking, how they are feeling and, usually, what mischief they are plotting. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.
Allan Pease -
You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them...
Brigham Young -
Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.
Ellen Kushner -
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
George Eliot -
Even when we're blindfolded, even when you're wearing sunglasses, even in the pitch black of night, we can always tell if you just ogled another woman.
Maria Bartiromo -
Woman! Come out! I have - " She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks too thin and unhealthy does not look sexy to me, and she does not look right for Guess.
Paul Marciano -
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
Ninon de L'Enclos -
When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.
Regis Philbin -
Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.
Nancy Springer -
I've been trying to give as much attention and focus to my life as well as my career. It's hard because the career is money, but putting that before day-to-day needs isn't something that can last indefinitely. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.
Eric Lange -
You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.
Arthur Schnitzler
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As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.
Sue Mengers -
The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.
Elmer Kelton -
For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.
Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony -
That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.
Emma Stone -
A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton -
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.
Esther Vilar
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When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
Ann Hui -
I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.
Ethel M. Dell -
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
Elisabeth Elliot -
He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him
Eileen Wilks