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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.

Two women placed together makes cold weather.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

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.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.