7,390 Quotes About Women
- Author Sheryl Sandberg
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If we want a world with greater equality, we need to acknowledge that women are less likely to keep their hands up. We need institutions and individuals to notice and correct for this behavior by encouraging, promoting, and championing more women. And women have to learn to keep their hands up, because when they lower them, even managers with the best intentions might not notice.
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- Author Sheryl Sandberg
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In November 2011, San Francisco magazine ran a story on female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and illustrated it by superimposing the featured women's heads onto male bodies. The only body type they could imagine for successful entrepreneurship was wearing a tie or a hoodie. Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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- Author Mantaranjot Mangat
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Micro-mettle of women is stronger than herculean power of men.
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- Author Truman Capote
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Women are like flies: they settle on sugar or shit. I'm not saying I'm sugar, but she's sure settled for shit now. My name is George Schmidt.
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- Author Criss Jami
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I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.
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- Author Monaristw
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If someone ever encourages men to become more like women. It is the good men who are with you who follow suit. While the bad men who are against you, remain men. Bets! Place your bets!
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- Author Nawal el Saadawi
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Now I realised that the least deluded of all woman was the prostitute. That marriage was the system built on the most cruel suffering for women.
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- Author Patrick Rothfuss
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I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.
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- Author Nikita Gill
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We are the bloodof the witches you thought were dead.We carry witchcraft in our boneswhilst magic still singsinside out heads.When the witch huntersimprisoned out ancestorswhen they tried to burn the magic away.Someone should havewarned themthat magic cannot be tamed.Because you cannot burn away what has alwaysbeen aflame.
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