899 private quotes tagged women

“I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.” — Leah Ward Sears

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“Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.” — Grace Kelly

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“All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.” — W.C. Fields

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“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.” — Al Goldstein

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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.” — Alice Walker

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“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” — Pope John XXIII

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“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” — Ogden Nash

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“The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.” — Kerry Washington

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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.” — Francesca Annis

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“Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.” — Jennifer Granholm

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“I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.” — Francesca Annis

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“I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.” — Francesca Annis

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“I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.” — Nadia Giosia

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“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.” — Clare Boothe Luce

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“I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.” — Bette Davis

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“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.” — Audre Lorde

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“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.” — Warren Farrell

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“I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.” — Jeff Bridges

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“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.” — Chris Rock

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“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” — Brendan Behan

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“If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.” — Emma Thompson

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“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.” — Honore de Balzac

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“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.” — Pope John Paul II

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