Quotes with woman]

Quotes 721 till 740 of 773.

  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Dryden Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Josh Billings Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Paula Nelson Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.
    Paula Nelson
     
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  • Sister Corita Kent Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
    Sister Corita Kent
    American artist, educator, and advocate for social justice
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  • Carine Roitfeld Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Billingsley Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.
    Barbara Billingsley
    American actor (1915 - 2010)
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  • Busy Philipps Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Caitlin Moran You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Belinda Carlisle You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
    Belinda Carlisle
    American singer, musician, and author (1958 - )
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  • Ada Leverson You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • James Joyce You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oscar Wilde You know what a woman's curiosity is. Almost as great as a man's!
    Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alice James You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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