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• Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

  E. V. Lucas

  Men, Accustomed

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• Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

  Kate Millett

  Prudes, Ifs

  "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.

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• When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Smart, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Holy, Duty, Aim

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• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Giving, Literature, One Woman

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• If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Husband, Laughing, Married

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• Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

  Aldous Huxley

  Eggs, Female, Century

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• A woman mixed of such fine elements
  That were all virtue and religion dead
  She'd make them newly, being what she was.

  George Eliot

  Elements, Virtue, Fine

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.403

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• A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Sex, Light

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.3311, Delphi Classics

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• The eternal feminine doth draw us upward.
  [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Feminine, Draws, Eternal

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• If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perfection, Honor, Ifs

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Marriage, Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget

  Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)

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• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Rights, Tests, Bears

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Grief, Heart

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• If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• ...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

  Marsden Wagner

  Strength, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

  Brittney Griner

  Happy, Strong, Feminist

  "Owning The Middle". Article by Kate Fagan, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.

  Bert Stern

  Beauty, Beautiful, Children

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• I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.

  Bobbi Brown

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

  Christine de Pizan

  Inspirational, Sex, Lying

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.

  Paco Rabanne

  Goodbye, Old Things, Personality

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• One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

  Jane Campion

  Movie, Real, Learning

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.

  Shirin Neshat

  Art, Islamic, Power

  Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

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• Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, World

  "At the Pinnacle of Hillary Clinton's Career" by Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. April 5, 2012.

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• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  Zoe Saldana

  Latin, Thinking, Blood

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