899 private quotes tagged women

“If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.” — Doris Day

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“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.” — Sarah Jessica Parker

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“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.” — Margaret Mead

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“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.” — Samuel Gompers

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“Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.” — Taslima Nasrin

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“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Women are always beautiful.” — Ville Valo

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“Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.” — Bill Vaughan

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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 otherwise.” — Kathleen Turner

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“The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.” — Nora Ephron

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“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.” — Erma Bombeck

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“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.” — E. M. Forster

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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” — Marcel Proust

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“Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.” — Helen Rowland

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“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.” — Emma Goldman

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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Most women are one man away from welfare.” — Gloria Steinem

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“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.” — Megan Fox

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“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.” — Steve Martin

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“The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.” — Gro Harlem Brundtland

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“The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.” — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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“As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.” — Susan Faludi

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“Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.” — Mark Dayton

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