Quotes with woman-kind

Quotes 521 till 540 of 1506.

  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Anita Loos I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Benjamin Harrison I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
    Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Assata Shakur I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Adela Rogers St. Johns I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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  • Busy Philipps I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they're sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Beck I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
    Black Book magazine, Fall 2002
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Stendhal I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Queen Victoria I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Lord George Byron I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Burning Spear I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Dolly Parton I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Gloria Steinem I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Walters I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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