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To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
Author:
Loretta Young
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A charming woman is a busy woman.
Author:
Loretta Young
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The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
Author:
Loretta Young
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The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Author:
Susannah York
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I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
Author:
William Yeats
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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
Author:
Lois Wyse
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Author:
Tammy Wynette
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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Author:
William Wycherley
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing." I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Author:
Katarina Witt
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I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
Author:
John Wise
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
Author:
Kathleen Winsor
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The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
Author:
Sloan Wilson
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Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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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.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
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I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.
Author:
Roberta Williams
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The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.
Author:
Pharrell Williams
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But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
Author:
Ellen Wilkinson
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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
Author:
Kaiser Wilhelm
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And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.
Author:
Gene Wilder
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Author:
Mae West
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Author:
Mae West
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Author:
Mae West
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Author:
Mae West
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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
Author:
Jessamyn West
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Author:
Ida Wells
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Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.
Author:
George Weinberg
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We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.
Author:
George Weinberg
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Author:
Jenny Weber
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I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
Author:
Naomi Watts
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.
Author:
Barry Watson
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I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
Author:
Jody Watley
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I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.
Author:
Jody Watley
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Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
Author:
Jody Watley
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The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.
Author:
Jody Watley
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Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Author:
Dionne Warwick
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It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
Author:
Dionne Warwick
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I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.
Author:
Ruth Warrick
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Author:
Charles Warner
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Author:
Mary Ward
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If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.
Author:
Fred Ward
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
Author:
Vera Wang
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
Author:
Vera Wang
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
Author:
Vera Wang
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
Author:
Vera Wang
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Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
Author:
Julie Walters
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Author:
Alice Walker
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
Author:
Alexander Walker
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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.
Author:
David Wain
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A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
Author:
Sol Wachtler
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In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
Author:
Diana Vreeland
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I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.
Author:
Lesley Visser
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Author:
Virgil
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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
Author:
Tom Verlaine
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There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster.
Author:
Rene Veaux
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
Author:
Vince Vaughn
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We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
Author:
Elizabeth Vargas
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I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
Author:
Agnes Varda
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I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Author:
Gloria Vanderbilt
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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
Author:
Amy Vanderbilt
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Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
Author:
John Vanbrugh
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A slighted woman knows no bounds.
Author:
John Vanbrugh
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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Author:
Marguerite Valois
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A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Author:
Marguerite Valois
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
Author:
Jack Valenti
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You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
Author:
Roger Vadim
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Author:
Charles V
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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
Author:
John Updike
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I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
Author:
Liv Tyler
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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
Author:
Tina Turner
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Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.
Author:
Tina Turner
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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.
Author:
Lana Turner
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A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
Author:
Margaret Turnbull
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Author:
Mao Tung
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A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Author:
Bess Truman
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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
Author:
Pete Townshend
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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.
Author:
Nina Totenberg
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When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
Author:
Arturo Toscanini
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A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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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.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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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.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
Author:
William Thackeray
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
Author:
William Thackeray
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
Author:
Elizabeth Taylor
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Author:
Booth Tarkington
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The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Author:
Tacitus
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The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
Author:
John Synge
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
Author:
Wanda Sykes
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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Author:
Jimmy Swaggart
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Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Author:
Sally Struthers
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If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
Author:
Erich Stroheim
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
Author:
August Strindberg
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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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?
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?
Author:
Trish Stratus
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In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
Author:
Madeleine Stowe
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A woman's health is her capital.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
Author:
Rex Stout
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I like being a woman, not a girl.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
Author:
Lucy Stone
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But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
Author:
Lucy Stone
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They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good.
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Angie Stone
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I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.
Author:
Angie Stone
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I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.
Author:
Angie Stone
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If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
Author:
Rod Stewart
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Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
Author:
Jackie Stewart
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.
Author:
Fisher Stevens
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It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
Author:
James Stephens
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Stendhal
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Author:
Stendhal
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Gloria Steinem
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Author:
Saul Steinberg
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
Author:
Edith Stein
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A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
Author:
Richard Steele
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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Author:
Richard Steele
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Author:
Freya Stark
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Elizabeth Stanton
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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I respect a woman too much to marry her.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Author:
Madame Stael
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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.
Author:
Madame Stael
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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Author:
Anna Spencer
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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
Author:
Catherine Spence
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When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
Author:
Aaron Spelling
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I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Author:
Robert Southey
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To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
Author:
David Soul
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Sophocles
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Author:
Sophocles
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Socrates
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On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'
Author:
Will Smith
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Author:
Nancy Smith
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Author:
Lillian Smith
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No woman has an abortion for fun.
Author:
Elizabeth Smith
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No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
Author:
Bessie Smith
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Author:
Adam Smith
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!
Author:
Jessica Simpson
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What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.
Author:
Ashlee Simpson
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Author:
Nina Simone
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Author:
Carly Simon
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I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Author:
Gene Simmons
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
Author:
Beverly Sills
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Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
Author:
John Shimkus
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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
Author:
Gail Sheehy
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I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.
Author:
Ally Sheedy
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An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Author:
Norma Shearer
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A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
Author:
Norma Shearer
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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Author:
Norma Shearer
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Author:
George Shaw
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Author:
George Shaw
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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
Author:
Garry Shandling
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I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.
Author:
Shakira
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
Author:
Joan Severance
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Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
Author:
Asne Seierstad
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I was making out with this woman, and my shirt was off, and she leaned over and, in a really cute, girly voice, went, 'Hey, fatty!'
Author:
Jason Segel
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Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
Author:
Jill Scott
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I think every man who is not a religious moron likes when a woman is comfortable with watching a porn movie.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.
Author:
Pepper Schwartz
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We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"
Author:
Pat Schroeder
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A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.
Author:
Rob Schneider
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.
Author:
Egon Schiele
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The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.
Author:
Maximilian Schell
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Author:
Dorothy Sayers
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The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
Author:
Jean Savarin
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You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.
Author:
Jennifer Saunders
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It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.
Author:
Peter Sarsgaard
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It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.
Author:
Milton Sapirstein
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Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
Author:
Rick Santorum
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I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.
Author:
Rick Santorum
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He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.
Author:
Jacopo Sannazaro
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A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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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.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
