899 private quotes tagged women

“You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.” — Emma Thompson

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“I think older women still have a full life.” — Betty White

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“When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.” — Jack Nicholson

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“Women are still second-class citizens.” — Joan Jett

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“I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.” — Antonio Banderas

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“Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.” — Maurice Sendak

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“The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just h---y. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.” — George William Curtis

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“Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.” — Francesca Annis

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“It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.” — Annie Lennox

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“Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.” — Yakov Smirnoff

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“As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.” — Joseph Conrad

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“All my friends' mothers were appalling women.” — Doris Lessing

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“Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.” — Clayton Christensen

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“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.” — Samuel Richardson

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“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.” — Marya Mannes

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“Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.” — Samuel Richardson

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“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.” — Marilyn French

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“I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.” — Doris Lessing

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“You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.” — Doris Lessing

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“I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.” — Doris Lessing

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“I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.” — Neil LaBute

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“We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.” — Kristin Scott Thomas

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