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Nancy Astor

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    [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!

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    Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

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    Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

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    Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

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    Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

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    Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

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    From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

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    Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

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    If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.

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    I married beneath me. All women do.

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    In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

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    I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

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    It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

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    It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

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    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.

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    I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

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    Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

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    My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

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    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.

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    One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

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    Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

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    Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

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    Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

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    The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

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    The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

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    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.

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    There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

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    [To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

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    What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

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    When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?

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    Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

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    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

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    Am I dying, or is this my birthday?