7,390 Quotes About Women
- Author Rachel Held Evans
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If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.
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- Author Anne Sexton
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Some ghosts are women. Not angels, but ghosts.
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- Author Gustave Flaubert
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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
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- Author Khalid Masood
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He who controls the women controls the universe.
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- Author James Baldwin
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It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.
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- Author Murasaki Shikibu
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Women are by nature blithely content to allow others to deceive them. You know full well these tales have only the slightest connection to reality, and yet you let your heart be moved by trivial words and get so caught up in the plots that you copy them out without giving a thought to the tangled mess your hair has become in this humid weather.
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- Author Carolyn Custis James
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Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.
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- Author Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.
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- Author Margaret Atwood
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My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. If they were, we wouldn't need a legal system.
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