Women Quotes - Page 20

• Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Light, Bob

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.50, Penguin

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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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• 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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• If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Inspirational, Grace, Suffering

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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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• 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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• “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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• Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Fear, Lying

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

  Cornelia Funke

  Grief, Doubt, Different

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• Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Two, People

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.438, Penguin

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• One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wish, Human Bondage

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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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• 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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• Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.

  Patricia Briggs

  Jobs, Car, Complaining

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.53, Penguin

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• Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

  Tupac Shakur

  Hate, Sound, Want

  Song: I Get Around keep Ya Head Up, 1993

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  People, History, World

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Gowns, Garments

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.367

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• Thou art a woman,
  And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

  Philip James Bailey

  Art, Thee, Worst

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.354

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• Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

  Groucho Marx

  Dance, Inspiration, People

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• Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong Women, Destiny, Names

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• We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

  Charlaine Harris

  Salt, Woman Worth, Grans

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.979, Penguin

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• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  George William Curtis

  Motivational, Peace, Kindness

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• Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Naked, Witch

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  History, Diversity, Tolerance

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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