- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've stepped down from jobs that paid me well more than what I was working anywhere else. And each time, it was to serve the public good and to serve the young men and women of our armed services.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my commitment to the nation's security, it's my commitment to the men and women in uniform that drives me. Not anything else.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, there is a new diet that all the celebs or housewives are trying. We all want the perfect diet or the perfect pill. If we surveyed a million women, and they could choose to learn the truth about God or the foolproof diet, I guarantee more women would pick the miracle diet over the miracle of life.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did later on.
- Emancipate
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.
- French Women
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- Nov 07, 2020