Quotes with woman]

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  • James Thurber It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • W. C. Fields It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Bette Davis It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Anais Nin It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Anton Chekhov It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Angela Carter It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bruno Mars It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Sean O'Casey Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carre Otis Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Betsey Johnson Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Russell H. Conwell Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • Ben Nelson Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • George Chapman Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • Khaled Hosseini Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Antonia Fraser Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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