Women Quotes
15910 quotes by 6132 authors
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
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I also have this incredible love for women.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
— Dido Armstrong
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So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
— Mary Kay Ash
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
— Dave Attell
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different…
— Chinua Achebe
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All fat women look the same; they all look 42.
— Margaret Atwood
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to…
— Margaret Atwood
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
— Jane Austen
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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
— Jane Austen
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without…
— 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
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
— Jane Austen
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
— Jane Austen
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
— Jane Austen
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