Women Quotes - Page 37

• I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

  John Gay

  Mind

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 3

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• The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

  Virgil

  Leadership, Leader, Deeds

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• It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

  Elisabeth Murdoch

  Age, Tire

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• So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

  Amelia Earhart

  Names, Awards, Cake

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• Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

  Amelia Earhart

  Giants, Aviation, Creation

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• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

  Daisy Bates

  Inspirational, Enemy, Trying

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• A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

  James Thurber

  Husband, Party, Home

  James Thurber (2002). “Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species”

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• And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Nuts, Facts

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• Women... can't live with 'em...... can't shoot 'em

  Steven Wright

  Ems, True Lies

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• I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

  Barbara Bush

  Children, Needs, Care

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• Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

  Jessamyn West

  Leadership, Distance, Numbers

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

  Francis Thompson

  Views, World, April

  'The Kingdom of God' (1913)

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• Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

  Earl Wilson

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

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• How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

  Christopher Morley

  Impossible, Moments, Womanly

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• Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

  Christopher Morley

  Novelty, World, Fifty

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• A woman's place is in the wrong.

  James Thurber

  James Thurber, Thomas Fensch (1989). “Conversations with James Thurber”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

  James Thurber

  Running, Long, Males

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• Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.

  James Thurber

  Men, Interesting, Fascinating

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• A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

  Voltaire

  Inspiration, Secret, Age

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• A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Needs, World, Littles

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• Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

  Virgil

  Fickle

  Virgil (1961). “The Aeneid”

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• A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

  Virgil

  Fickle

  Virgil (1978). “Virgil: Georgics ; Aeneid I-VI. Eclogues”

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• There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

  Menander

  Sea, Land, Beast

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• Women are one and all a set of vultures.

  Petronius

  Vulture

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• What does a woman want? More.

  Chris Evans

  Doe, Want, Women Want

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