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Woman Quotes by Stacy Schiff
- We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount…
- Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today.…
- Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists,…
- As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.
- When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.
- How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a…
- Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep…
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- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
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- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall