7,390 Quotes About Women
- Author Théophile Gautier
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I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world.
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- Author Deborah Bedford
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In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to someone who had hurt her.
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- Author Melissa Nathan
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I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today.""Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial.""Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?
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- Author Bella Pollen
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I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.
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- Author Thackeray William Makepeace
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!
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- Author Антон Павлович Чехов
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Изучать науки женщина неспособна. Это явствует уже из одного того, что для нее не заводят учебных заведений.
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- Author Stephen Lewis
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One is that if women’s sexuality in Africa wasn’t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren’t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn’t have a pandemic.
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- Author Michelle Obama
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When they go low, we go high.
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- Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
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