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

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and l...

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Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are il...

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I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by...

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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out th...

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John ScalziYour Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happi...

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Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops...

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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place ...

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, impr...

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He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. The...

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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to th...

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Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting...

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John UpdikeRabbit Redux

The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking...

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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from v...

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Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and ...

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...

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Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anza...

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His heart cracked, and he fell in love. He wondered if she would marry him. “Tu sei pazzo,” she told...

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Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. Th...

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Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerf...

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Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe t...

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The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equali...

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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give enco...

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One should remember that where nobody flees, there is no pursuer: that where there are no little fis...

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....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of min...

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José RizalLiham para sa Kababaihan ng Malolos

The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feel...

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He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is...

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... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't...

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Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

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Joyce Carol OatesFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in ...

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Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out...

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He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They...

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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard t...

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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny an...

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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle ag...

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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also exp...

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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a...

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If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

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Kameron HurleyThe Geek Feminist Revolution

She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman...

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Jung ChangWild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached ...

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Jung ChangWild Swans: Three Daughters of China

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person ...

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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does no...

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In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political...

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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.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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

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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

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Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

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

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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a ...

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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them ...

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Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...

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The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of pro...

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Karl MarxThe Communist Manifesto

When women go wrong men go right after them.

It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalance...

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It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of m...

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Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian on...

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There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot...

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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you'v...

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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and j...

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In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th ce...

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Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be co...

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Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know...

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I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us do...

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Kathleen NorrisThe Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry

I've tried to prepare my daughter for the phenomenon I've experienced of beautiful young women being...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt th...

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Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy com...

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There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to st...

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The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the ...

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You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasa...

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

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds ...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too m...

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I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothi...

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Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the...

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My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physi...

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When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care ...

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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially fo...

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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.