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"The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend." »George Santayana
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"Funny business, a woman's career the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted." »Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." »John Erskine
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"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them." »Helen Rowland
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"Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it." »James Joyce
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"Take a woman dancing and she'll have fun for one night; teach a woman how to dance and she'll have fun for the rest of her life." »Ann Alfano
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"I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 2
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"Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man." »Dazed and Confused
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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions." »Voltaire
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"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." »Madame Swetchine
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"woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee
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"'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around." »John W. Vessey, Jr.
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"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war." »Golda Meir
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." »Julia Child
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"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." »Jane Austen
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"Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery." »Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine
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"All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight." »Butler
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"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion." »Margaret Cho
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"Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness." »Robertson Davies
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"Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..." »William Shakespeare
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"Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love." »Andrew Schneider
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"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?" »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman." »Sandra Cisneros
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"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman" »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind." »John Dryden
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne
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"I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives." »John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
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"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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