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Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.
If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.
The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.
Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'
There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.
I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal.
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders.
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.
Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.