Quotes with woman]

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  • Charles Caleb Colton If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Margaret Thatcher If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Billie Jean King In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Camille Paglia In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Hecht In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Carole King In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Jane Austen In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Nancy Astor In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Eugenie Clark In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
    Eugenie Clark
     
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Angela Carter In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Camille Paglia In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bell Hooks In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Lewis Grizzard Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
    Lewis Grizzard
    American journalist (1946 - 1994)
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