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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 Jul 30, 2026
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think women make better pilots.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women will use a glycolic acid cleanser, then an AHA/BHA serum, then a retinol night cream and sure, they have glowing skin, but that's the equivalent of a mini-peel each night. Go easy on your skin! Get good advice! We have finite layers!
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- Nov 07, 2020