Quotes with woman-being

Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 2607.

  • Betty Friedan It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • George Macdonald It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Camille Paglia It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Thomas Hardy It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Marcia Wieder It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Barbra Streisand It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Angela Carter It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Gertrude Stein It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Carine Roitfeld It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Bob Keeshan It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Bede Griffiths It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Anna Julia Cooper It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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