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~ More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ~

~ If women must submit to abortion to preserve their lifestyle or career, their economic or social status they are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male convenience. ~

Daphne deJong

~ Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. ~

Sophocles

~ Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ~

Anthony Burgess

~ Today, fashion is really about sensuality - how a woman feels on the inside. In the eighties 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. ~

Donna Karan

~ Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ~

David Ogilvy

~ The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. ~

Marguerite de Valois

~ Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues. ~

Charlotte Bunch

~ Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ Feminism is a recognition of the domination of men over women and attempts by women to end male privilege.... It is a theory, a method, and a practice which seeks to transform human relations. ~

Cynthia Orozco

~ We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride. ~

Cybil Shepherd

~ The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart and are impregnable. ~

Jean Baptiste de Boyer

~ Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. ~

Louis Charles Alfred de Musset

~ I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate. ~

Graham Greene

~ Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. ~

Octave Feuillet

~ If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. ~

Christopher Hampton

~ Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. ~

Charles A. Cerami

~ Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~

E.V. Lucas

~ In the faces of men and women I see God. ~

Walt Whitman

~ I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. ~

Francois Truffaut

~ We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. ~

Robert Adam

~ Women are happier in their illusions than in their most agreeable experi-ences. ~

Adelaide Billet Dufresnoy

~ There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ~

William J. Brennan

~ Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man ~

Brookner, Anita

~ Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others ~

Amelia Earhart

~ Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret ~

Ruth Morgan

~ I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable ~

Sherry Glaser

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