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As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.
It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.
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.
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.
[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.
The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies.
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.