899 private quotes tagged women

“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.” — Wangari Maathai

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“Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.” — Barbara Bush

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“I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.” — Sean Connery

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“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.” — Jean Kerr

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“To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.” — Solomon Ortiz

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“I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.” — Anne Lamott

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“Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.” — Kate Smith

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“Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.” — Annie Lennox

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“I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.” — Roberto Cavalli

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“Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.” — Jon Meacham

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“An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?” — Tina Fey

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“I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.” — Ron Paul

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“If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.” — Scott Adams

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“It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.” — Julia Roberts

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“We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.” — Madeleine Albright

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“Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.” — Cher

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“I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.” — Madeleine Albright

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“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.” — Mary Schmich

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“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.” — Albert Ellis

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“I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.” — Noam Chomsky

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“I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.” — Joan Jett

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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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“It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.” — Ralph Lauren

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