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Quotes 4401 till 4420 of 4622.

  • Ann Beattie Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Barber Conable 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.
    The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Lady Blessington Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production, they are better critics than authors.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Campbell Brown 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.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Hall Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
    Northern Exposure Baby Blues
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon 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.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Amelia Earhart Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anita Borg Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Paula Nelson Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.
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  • Calvin Klein Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Sophocles Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carol Shields Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • David Sarnoff Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Jim Rohn Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Noel Coward Work is more fun than fun.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Caskie Stinnett Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.
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