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 | "A creature not too bright or good For human nature"s daily food; For
transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and
smiles." | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more
horrible than a bad one." | |
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Simonides of Ceos
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| "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal
skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study:
Duh." | |
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| "A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good
women." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and
that"s all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be passive;
she can be aggressive, she can be any way she wants with a man. But
whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have
some solid base, life can be frightening." | |
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Barbara Walters
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| "A woman can keep one secret ? the secret of her age." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create,
nurture, and transform. A woman knows that nothing can come to fruition
without light. Let us call upon woman"s voice and woman"s heart to guide
us in this age of planetary transformation." | |
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Diane Mariechild
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| "A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the
opportunity. It is her favourite form of self-indulgence." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more
frequent." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops
something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar
bill, each different in design.... Her problem is to keep one from
draining the life from the other." | |
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Ivy Baker Priest
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| "Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although
he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by
examining his wives" mouths." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I
do not hope to turn." | |
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T. S. Eliot
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| "But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He
give us a brain?" | |
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Clare Boothe Luce
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| "Can I see another?s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see
another?s grief, And not seek for kind relief?" | |
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William Blake
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| "Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when
they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it." | |
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Louisa May Alcott
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| "God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made
woman." | |
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Adela Rogers St. Johns
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| "He who knows one thing, knows all things; And he who knows all
things, knows one thing. He who is careless in all respects, is in danger;
he who is not careless in all respects, is free from danger." | |
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Nagarjuna
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| "How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are
discussing the cases of men and those of women." | |
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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| "However muted its present appearance may be, sexual domination
obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture
and provides its most fundamental concept of power." | |
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Kate Millett
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| "I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other
words, a girl who can not get a man." | |
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Shelley Winters
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| "I believe in women. I desire ... to do those things that would
advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work." | |
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Emmeline B. Wells
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| "I"m just a person trapped inside a woman"s body." | |
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Elayne Boosler
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| "I?d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear
cute clothes, and they?re the first to be rescued off sinking
ships." | |
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Gilda Radner
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| "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an
infant"s life, she will choose to save the infant"s life without even
considering there are men on base." | |
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Dave Barry
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| "If a woman hasn"t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she is a dry
stick as a rule." | |
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David Herbert Lawrence
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| "If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born
slaves?" | |
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Mary Astell
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| "If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a
brain?" | |
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Claire Booth Luce
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| "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world
upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it
back, and get it right side up again!" | |
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Sojourner Truth
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| "If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled
when a woman appears." | |
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John Gay
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| "In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything,
disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to
deepen this disappointment in every woman"s heart until she bows down to it
no longer." | |
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Lucy Stone
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| "It is silly for a woman to go to a male gynecologist. It is like
going to an auto mechanic who has never even owned his own car." | |
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Carrie Snow
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| "It"s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman
first of all." | |
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Anaïs Nin
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| "Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking." | |
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Lazurus Long
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| "Most women are not so young as they are painted." | |
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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| "Most women have no characters at all." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "My advice to the women"s clubs of America is to raise more hell and
fewer dahlias." | |
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William Allen White
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| "Never eat in a place called Mom"s." | |
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Nelson Algren
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| "Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and
then for making it worth living." | |
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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| "Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and
then for making it worth having." | |
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Christian Nestell Bovée
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| "O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and
anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" | |
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Sir Walter Scott
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| "O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." | |
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Simone de Beauvoir
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| "Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we
say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and
privately we excuse and overlook it." | |
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Victoria Billings
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| "She looked as though butter wouldn"t melt in her mouth ... or
anywhere else." | |
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Elna Lanchester
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| "She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth." | |
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John Heywood
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| "She looks as if butter wouldn"t melt in her mouth." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "She takes just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like
a woman, yes she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just
like a little girl." | |
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Bob Dylan
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| "She was short on intellect, but long on shape." | |
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George Ade
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| "She"s the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success-wrong by
wrong." | |
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Mae West
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| "Show me a woman who doesn"t feel guilty and I"ll show you a
man." | |
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Erica Mann Jong
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| "The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement,
intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency." | |
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Margaret Sarah Fuller
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| "The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the the
infernal constancy of the women who love me." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman." | |
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Nancy Astor
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| "The major concrete achievement of the women"s movement of the 1970"s
was the Dutch treat." | |
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Nora Ephron
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| "The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move
on the surface." | |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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| "The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not
some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal." | |
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Wilma Scott Heide
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| "There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not
in the forearm." | |
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Beverly Sills
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| "There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a
chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by." | |
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Eva Figes
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| "There is no evil as terrible as a woman." | |
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Euripides
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| "There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well
speak of a female liver." | |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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| "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the
Ripper." | |
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Camille Paglia
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| "There"s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow." | |
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Fay Weldon
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| "To find out a girl"s faults, praise her to her girlfriends." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made
her what she is, And never made anither!" | |
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Robert Burns
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| "Today"s youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing
woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his
ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat." | |
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Carolyn G. Heilbrun
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| "We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much
he cares by being violent?see, he"s jealous, he cares?a woman shows how
much she cares by how much she"s willing to be hurt; by how much she will
take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she"s prepared to be." | |
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Andrea Dworkin
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| "We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them
silent." | |
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Anatole France
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| "We"re half the people; we should be half the Congress." | |
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Jeannette Rankin
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| "What is your sex"s earliest, latest care, Your heart"s supreme
ambition? To be fair." | |
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Lord Lyttleton
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| "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought
half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." | |
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Charlotte Whitton
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| "When a woman behaves like a man, why can"t she behave like a nice
man?" | |
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Dame Edith Evans
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| "When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn"t she behave like a nice
man?" | |
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Edith Evans
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| "Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of
a woman?s will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on?t. And if she
won?t, she won?t; so there?s an end on?t." | |
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Unknown
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| "While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose
the consequences of our actions." | |
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Stephen R. Covey
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| "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man"s habits and then
complain that he"s not the man she married?" | |
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Barbara Streisand
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| "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight!" | |
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The Bible
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| "Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without
falling into her hands." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the
only time of the month I can be myself." | |
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Roseanne Barr
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| "Women dissemble their passions better than men, but men subdue their
passions better than women." | |
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Sir Richard Steele
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| "Women do two thirds of the world"s work....Yet they earn only one
tenth of the world"s income and own less than one percent of the world"s
property. They are among the poorest of the world"s poor." | |
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Barber B. Conable Jr.
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| "Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover
everything except the obvious." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing
the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its
natural size." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "Women have simple tastes. They can get pleasure out of the
conversation of children in arms and men in love." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "Women like silent men. They think they"re listening." | |
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Marcel Archard
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| "Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at
home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They
must cease to see them as "women"s issues" and learn that they are
everyone"s issues ? essential to survival on planet Earth." | |
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Erica Jong
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| "Women speak two languages ? one of which is verbal." | |
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Steve Bubinstein
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| "Women would rather be right than reasonable." | |
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Ogden Nash
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| "Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without
them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I
had a boat named Courageous." | |
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Ted Turner
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| "You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man?s rib;
she was made from his funny bone." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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