899 private quotes tagged women

“The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.” — Joan Jett

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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.” — Marguerite Duras

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“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.” — Mike Honda

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“I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.” — Chief Joseph

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“Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.” — Anna Quindlen

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“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.” — David Ogilvy

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“I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.” — Julia Stiles

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“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.” — Molly Ivins

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“As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.” — Vera Wang

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“Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.” — Robin Hayes

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“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.” — Toni Morrison

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“There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.” — Richard Roeper

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“America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.” — Allen Boyd

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“I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.” — Carol P. Christ

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“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.” — Erica Jong

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“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.” — Gene Tierney

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“I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.” — Jack Nicholson

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“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.” — John Gray

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“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” — Aristotle Onassis

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“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.” — Wangari Maathai

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