Woman Quotes
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
George Eliot
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She's an old woman possessed of great powers - but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
Bette Davis
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Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.
Sarah Addison Allen
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It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
Ernestine Rose
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The difference between two men is usually a woman.
Evan Esar
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.
Sharon Horgan
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
George William Curtis
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Michael Caine
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A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
Euripides
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I don't know that I constantly think about being a black woman.
Susan Kelechi Watson
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God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Ben Tillett
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'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.
John Prine
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I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
Elizabeth Edwards
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I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
Esai Morales
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Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.
Samuel Smiles
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It's a good time to be a woman.
Katie Louchheim
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Get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you’d succeed in being is what a woman is according to you men. You can copy me, make a portrait as precise as an artist, but my shit will always remain mine, and yours will be yours.
Elena Ferrante
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You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!
Thomas Hardy
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I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.
Eileen Collins