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A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can...

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you trea...

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A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is t...

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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Hus...

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...

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I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't g...

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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire symp...

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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay,...

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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stand...

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All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut whe...

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Maya AngelouPhenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family...

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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.

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Michael ChabonThe Yiddish Policemen's Union

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I a...

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I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly t...

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I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautifu...

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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of inte...

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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imita...

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I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free t...

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Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the app...

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She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed ro...

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A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquainta...

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Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished, in her place has come ...

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Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.

Woman is in love with the devil.

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Nikolai GogolDiary of a Madman and Other Stories

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin H...

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A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a ...

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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience...

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Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topo...

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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and ...

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but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do yo...

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Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with yo...

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They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, d...

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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll...

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Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe...

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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in th...

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Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preache...

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tel...

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man kno...

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perf...

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You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accu...

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But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophist...

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Oscar WildeA Woman of No Importance

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

At a time when she was engaged to Stilton Cheesewright, I remember recording in the archives that sh...

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P. G. WodehouseJeeves and the Tie That Binds

Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,you look like a world, lying in surrender.My rough peasan...

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive bey...

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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resou...

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What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span ...

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If she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she...

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There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing s...

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However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woma...

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She was fighting for something, she feltalive and capable of responding to the challenges facing her...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and ...

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However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she wa...

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I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too...

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A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit...

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Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...

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It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to...

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Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve...

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Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquen...

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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little s...

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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignoranc...

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To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress m...

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She was a woman with a broom or a dust-pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You sawher cu...

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I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a wo...

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I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress

I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none...

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress

When you consider that a human being has the opportunity of being acquainted with only a few hundred...

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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fa...

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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...

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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lo...

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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the...

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I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be t...

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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice ...

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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...

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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are th...

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