899 private quotes tagged women

“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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“Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.” — Sarah Palin

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“There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.” — Kristin Scott Thomas

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“Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.” — Doris Lessing

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“Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.” — Michael Kors

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“Women's issues have always been a part of my life.” — Annie Lennox

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“Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.” — Jello Biafra

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“Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.” — Kristin Scott Thomas

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