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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman Quotes
On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.
This set touches on the extra scrutiny women face in performance careers and the emotional stakes of being noticed romantically. For related identity-focused lines, see I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People equate health to a picture in a magazine of a 6-foot-tall thin woman with her skin rolls Photoshopped and her waist edited to be tiny, so when they see bodies that jiggle and move around like they do, they assume it's wrong.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Augustine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
- Degrading
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020