Women Quotes - Page 18

• A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

  Rick Warren

  Godly, Pastor, Threatened

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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• It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

  Lillian Hellman

  Memorable, People, Pretending

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• It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

  Lillian Hellman

  Change, People, Fame

  Pentimento "Theatre" (1973)

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• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Memorable, Acting, Four

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• I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Art, Thinking, People

  Katharine Hepburn (1991). “Me: stories of my life”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

  Benny Hill

  Girl, Naked, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Real

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

  Alice James

  Memorable, Doctors, Interviews

  1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Opportunity, Roots

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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  I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Inspiring, Girly

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• You're all you've got.

  Ann Landers

  "Fictional character: Whistler". "Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Becoming: Part 2", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

  Barbra Streisand

  Strong Women, Men, Obsessed

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• Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

  Patricia Briggs

  Giving, Demand, Lifetime

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• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Memorable, Important, One Man

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

  Kristin Hannah

  Girl, Kissing, Devil

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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• A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Dry, Tiny

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Diversity, Poetry, Feminism

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

  Gelett Burgess

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• I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

  Leila Khaled

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

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• My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Suicide, Husband

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

  George Eliot

  Memorable, Opposites, Common

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.54, 谷月社

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• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Lost Love, Divorce

  "How to Catch a Man, how to Keep a Man, how to Get Rid of a Man". Book by Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1970.

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• Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

  Germaine Greer

  Struggle, Order, Ugly

  The Female Eunuch (1970)

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• There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Charm, Women Beauty

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