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I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and ...

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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and ...

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One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women....

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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and...

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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her whi...

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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for ...

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​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a t...

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For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below the...

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Isabel AllendeOf Love and Shadows

But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're t...

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Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilizat...

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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...

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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...

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As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, ...

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Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own ...

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J. G. BallardThe Kindness of Women

Well, cast your mind back to the books he wrote. What is the one theme that keeps recurring from boo...

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She thought too that women didn't know what to do with themselves these days which could turn them i...

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J. P. DonleavyThe Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York

In winter night Massachusetts Street is dismal, the ground's frozen cold, the ruts and pock holes ha...

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Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!

Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let...

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Jack LondonThe Mutiny of the Elsinore

I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive ...

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The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuadin...

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Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and gro...

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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elep...

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that...

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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and str...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something lar...

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It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to ...

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I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortab...

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Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you ...

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James SalterDusk and Other Stories

You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that.""Further?""With your life. You must bec...

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Woman's place is in the wrong.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Wom...

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A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be i...

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It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m...

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Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepare...

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

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You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment ...

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

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Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and...

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But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is mo...

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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...

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... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderatio...

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says...

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My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone...

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Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach...

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In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...

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My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black woman...

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We ...

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think ...

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You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling th...

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I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had...

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Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something ...

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There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.

Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, tha...

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Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their...

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The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent...

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I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wonde...

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Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''A...

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I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what no...

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I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

Can we just stop pretending that skinny jeans are a good look on anyone? Can we just band together a...

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For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents -...

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I don't understand women at all. Like how a women can pour boiling hot wax onto their upper thigh, t...

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People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine an...

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Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women h...

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...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversatio...

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Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-rig...

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Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped ...

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Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take...

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I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I ...

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Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' h...

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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, ...

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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New ...

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It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest dem...

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I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresse...

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And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the ...

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Joanna RussHow to Suppress Women's Writing

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is ofte...

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What did we talk about?I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my ...

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There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference tr...

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