One Woman Quotes

• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.

  Rachel Gibson

  Men, Problem, One Man

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• I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

  Jack Nicholson

  Viagra

  "Jack Nicholson: the film great it would be hard to forget" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2013.

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• It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Media, Focus, Too Much

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• There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

  Michael Phelps

  Girl, Sports, Morning

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• I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Respect, Believe

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• A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Heart, Men

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• It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Fear, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wall, Home

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• Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Delusional, Funny Love

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 1 (1916)

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• It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

  Alveda King

  Men, Generations, Guarantees

  "Alveda King Speaks at Glenn Beck's DC Rally" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2010.

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• There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  World, Faces, Many Faces

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• Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Needs, World, Too Much

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• If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

  Lewis Black

  Compare, Ifs

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Men, Roosters, Hens

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• I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Cat, Differences

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Men, Media

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

  Tony Campolo

  Men, People, President

  "A Possible Compromise on the Gay Marriage Controversy" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.

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• With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, Men

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• Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

  Jim DeMint

  Block, Men, Civilization

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  Salma Hayek

  Cannes Film Festival, Directors, Female

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