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I married beneath me. All women do.
I married beneath me, all women do.
Grass is growing on the Front Bench.
Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.
Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.
Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.
