Quotes with woman]

Quotes 301 till 320 of 773.

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Charlotte Brontë I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Mae West I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Goldie Hawn I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
    Goldie Hawn
    American actress (1945 - )
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  • Michael J. Fox I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
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  • Ben Affleck I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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