7,390 Quotes About Women
- Author Charlotte Brontë
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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling."And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?
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- Author Bethany Baird
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God had a solution in mind. "I will make him a helper fit for him". Eve, a female, a helper, was God's solution to the problem.
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- Author Muhammad Yunus
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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
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- Author Anne Bradstreet
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Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our sex is void of reason Know ‘tis a slander now, but once was treason."(In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth)
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- Author Melvin Musera
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Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.
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- Author Conan O'Brien
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A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.
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- Author Robert Burns
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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks of State must each produce his plan,And even children lisp the Rights of Man;Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
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