Quotes:

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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell

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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de Stael

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf

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Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
Margaret Atwood

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
Adrienne Rich

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf

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I am my own woman.
Evita Peron

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A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.
Dorothy Thompson

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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West

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History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome.
Jane Austen

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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart

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We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
Donna Karan

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If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be horrible warning.
Catherine Aird

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Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.
Elizabeth Dole

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset

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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner

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A woman is as young as her knees.
Mary Quant

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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf

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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae Brown

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I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
Lisa Kudrow

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There is nothing a woman can't do. Men might think they do things all by themselves but a woman is always there guiding them or helping them.
Marjorie Joyner

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf

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I am my own woman.
Evita Peron

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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Catherine Zeta-Jones

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A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel

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Well behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf

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Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
Margaret Sanger

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Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied. The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.
Anna Quindlen

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I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
Jessica Lange

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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
Caryn Leschen

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

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A charming woman is a busy woman.
Loretta Young

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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Lady Nancy Astor

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A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
Kathleen Turner

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I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
Lisa Kudrow

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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger

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Every woman has the right to be beautiful.
Elizabeth Arden

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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger

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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
Tina Turner

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong

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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset

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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich

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There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
Madeleine K. Albright

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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
Tina Turner

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Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Paris Hilton

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A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Diane Mariechild

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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday

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Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Eve

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We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
Erma Bombeck

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