899 private quotes tagged women

“We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.” — Emma Thompson

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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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“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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“On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.” — Jesse Jackson

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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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“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.” — Wentworth Miller

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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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“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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“There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.” — Vera Farmiga

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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 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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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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“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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“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.” — Kathryn Bigelow

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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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“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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“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” — Isabel Allende

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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.” — William Hazlitt

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

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

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“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.” — Fay Weldon

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“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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“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.” — Anne Lamott

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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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