899 private quotes tagged women

“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.” — Mitch Daniels

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

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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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“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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“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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“The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.” — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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“Most women are one man away from welfare.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.” — Marlene Dietrich

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“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.” — E. M. Forster

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“Women are always beautiful.” — Ville Valo

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“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.” — Andrew Cohen

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“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.” — Marquis de Sade

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“Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.” — Florence Nightingale

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“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.” — Bessie Coleman

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“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart

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“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart

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“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart

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“As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.” — Rick Perry

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“Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.” — Hillary Clinton

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“I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.” — Jennifer Aniston

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“And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.” — Marco Rubio

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“The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.” — Paul Ryan

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