- 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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
- Rank
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020