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

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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
Halle Berry

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

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

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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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The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
Jane Sellman

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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Abigail Adams

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The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
Jane Sellman

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Curve: The loveliest distance between two points
Mae West

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

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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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After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

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A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel

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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 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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I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.
Lauren Hutton

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Well behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher

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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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There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr

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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 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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Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich

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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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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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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone De Beauvoir

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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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I am a woman above everything else.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

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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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Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
Rita Rudner

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

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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem

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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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We're born man, woman and sexual beings.
Virginia Johnson

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

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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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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
Mary Catherine Bateson

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Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich

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

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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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Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich

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