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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
Source: The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91 -
Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
― Florence Nightingale
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
― Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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