Women Quotes - Page 19

• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

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• When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

  Edith Evans

  Nice, Memorable, Feminist

  The Observer, September 30, 1956.

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• I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Ems, Foolish

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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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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• No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

  Kin Hubbard

  Beauty, Witty, Literature

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• I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

  John Dryden

  Wrinkles, Twenties, Looks

  'The Maiden Queen' (1668) act 3, sc. 1

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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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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Peace

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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• I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Money, Order, Political

  Statement to the Court, delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio

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• It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

  Ela Bhatt

  Change, Leader, Poverty

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• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

  Bella Abzug

  Funny, Wife, May

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• America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

  John Mason Brown

  Funny, Land, America

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• Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

  Coco Chanel

  Strong Women, Opinion, Wonderful

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• Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Valentine, Funny Relationship

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

  Charles Bukowski

  Ready, One Woman

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• I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Heart, Superhero

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.141, Penguin

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• when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Badass, New Years Resolution

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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

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• Only cowards torture women.

  Patricia Briggs

  Coward, Torture

  Patricia Briggs (2004). “Raven's Shadow”, p.317, Penguin

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• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  Mae West

  Funny Love, Running, Wedding

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• Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sexy, Strong Women, Mean

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Funny, Strong, Scary

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• “A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspirational, Notebook, Mind

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1, 1996.

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