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ATMOSPHERE Reasons... questions... what they have in common?
- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what ...
DEVAL PATRICK Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
SIDNEY SHELDON Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge ...
AMELIA EARHART Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS I am very happy that I have great fans. What I can tell them is they must work on themselves; they s...
MESUT OZIL I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for...
DANNEL MALLOY Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they ca...
ZIG ZIGLAR Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.
C.S. LEWIS I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fa...
AMELIA EARHART Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women...
JENNY SHIPLEY I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...
WILLIAM GOLDING I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have be...
WILLIAM GOLDING It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the...
EUGENIE CLARK Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, ...
DENNIS PRAGER You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been ...
MADONNA What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life
REYNOLDS PRICE Not too long ago, people, particularly men, worked until they were physically unable to work. Now, p...
ROBERT FRIEDLAND What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love th...
TRACY MCMILLAN Men and women do get paid equally for the same work for the most part.
DR. PAT HEDBERG Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been tr...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish
THEODOR REIK So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can'...
PAT BOONE What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to wor...
SHERYL SANDBERG Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to under...
JADA PINKETT SMITH Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissid...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anyt...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do....
JENNIFER CHIAVERINI The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is...
JOHN F. KELLY Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try ...
AMELIA EARHART Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It ...
RIHANNA You've got to work with this team. As long as you work with them, you can neutralize a lot of what t...
BRANDON LINCOLN Both men and women experience pressure to conform to social standards of attractiveness. Men to look...
MIYA YAMANOUCHI I hope it shows everyone what hard work can do for you. Hard work goes a long way.
DEREK KOSUB People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too...
BERTOLT BRECHT Usually if you wait for fundamentals to be confirmed, you've waited too long. What Enron has done is...
SAM STOVALL Usually if you wait for fundamentals to be confirmed, you've waited too long, ... What Enron has don...
SAM STOVALL I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD “You can’t do what You ONLY never tried to do.”
MAGED MAHROUS Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.
ROBERT JORDAN What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
ARTHUR MILLER Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
ZAHA HADID As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's time for government to take notice and to work with the marine industry. For far too long, the ...
FRANK HERHOLD Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They...
TIM SAMPLE Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get ...
JOHN WAYNE Ask not what you can do for your country, for they are liable to tell you
MARK STEINBECK As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends n...
SEAN ROSS Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our...
ALICE MUNRO Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.
ROBIN WILLIAMS By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our...
ZAINAB SALBI As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of thei...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last...
BERTOLT BRECHT He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They...
JULIAN BARNES What we see is that the number of women below the age of 35 in television is far greater. Interestin...
ANNA TURLEY He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to r...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I rarely have a pet tell me their human ended their life too soon. It's far more common to hear that...
KAREN A. ANDERSON I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working ...
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on ...
ANDREA DWORKIN Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same...
TIFFANY MADISON Men and women, women and men; it will never work.
ERICA JONG Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
ERICA JONG Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
ERICA JONG When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, whe...
CHARLES B. RANGEL What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively cor...
SHERYL SANDBERG Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving ma...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving ma...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
ELLEN BARKIN Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car
WILL DURST Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
CRISS JAMI For many men it is very difficult to accept and understand Infertility. They think only women can be...
RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it g...
CHRIS AHERN First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for wha...
VITO FOSSELLA My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversati...
SHERYL SANDBERG What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successfu...
CANDACE BUSHNELL Now they have a riddle.
- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- th...
DOLORES HUERTA I've tried not to get too far ahead of myself or get caught up in what is being said.
PHILIP RIVERS People are never too busy to tell you all that they have to do.
UNKNOWN I tried to make the play too fast. That's what I have to learn. Stay aggressive, but try to do the r...
EDWIN ENCARNACION Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilizatio...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Given these differences between the sexes, the sexual revolution was the biggest joke men ever playe...
JAMES C. DOBSON If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
NANCY ASTOR Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS Women have whats called the "friendzone" men have whats called "how do I get out of the friendzone" ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is act...
MODERATA FONTE I want to believe these men care about women. (But) I have to question it. Too often it's men tellin...
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JEAN ANOUILH If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characteriz...
JEAN PIAGET The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAU Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just para...
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