Quotes with woman-being

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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie .. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Baltasar Gracián A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • George Orwell A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Edna Ferber A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Groucho Marx A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Anna Held A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Camille Paglia A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barack Obama A woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Jane Austen A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Blaise Pascal All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
    Original: Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Agnes Smedley And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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