Quotes:

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Every woman has the right to be beautiful.
Elizabeth Arden

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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
Pearl S. Buck

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

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A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Old age ain't no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

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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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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin

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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman

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My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
Emma Thompson

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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller

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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood

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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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Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich

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A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel

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A woman is as young as her knees.
Mary Quant

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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
Louise Otto

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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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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller

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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.
Charlotte Whitton

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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein

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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
Lucy Stone

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Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf

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When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
Elayne Boosler

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It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.
Sarah Grimke

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce

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You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
Sanaa Lathan

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Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
Maria W. Chapman

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Curve: The loveliest distance between two points
Mae West

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The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
Jane Sellman

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I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts.
Barbara Dale

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Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich

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

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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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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"
Pat Schroeder

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Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune

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I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts.
Barbara Dale

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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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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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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller

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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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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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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 especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller

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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee

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Curve: The loveliest distance between two points
Mae West

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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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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland

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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee

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I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt

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No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
Anna Garlin Spencer

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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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

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I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
Nina Totenberg

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce

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