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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I...

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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ki...

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I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...

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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they con...

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Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pa...

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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...

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She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you ca...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be ...

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...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to br...

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...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to br...

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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they'r...

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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, s...

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Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant c...

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To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

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John WesleyHow To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...

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She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart...

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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules t...

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There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

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Jorge Luis BorgesThe Aleph and Other Stories

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depen...

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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost specta...

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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who alway...

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No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of se...

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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

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I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early d...

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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised,...

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

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and t...

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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a frien...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold ...

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There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed.

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Kingsley AmisThe Green Man

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise m...

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorr...

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It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It alwa...

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She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a wo...

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It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were ...

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It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their ow...

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Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

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Larry McMurtryThe Last Kind Words Saloon

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or ful...

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I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible ...

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I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only ...

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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

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If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part t...

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If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part t...

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If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part t...

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If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part t...

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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu...

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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 wit...

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I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of wom...

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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Ma...

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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first plac...

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I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. On...

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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if ...

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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her...

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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making ...

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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a hous...

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Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was th...

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Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a w...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal ...

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I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fr...

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... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had ...

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... which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappoi...

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... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the...

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... he was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought...

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He went farther; agonised by the reflection, at the moment when it passed by him, so near and yet so...

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Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditiona...

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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...

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I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with t...

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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They ...

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

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest...

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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inaliena...

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering i...

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The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.