When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
DAME EDITH EVANS When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
DAME EDITH EVANS Why can't a woman be more like a man?
ALAN JAY LERNER A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.
TRACEY EMIN A young woman married to an old man must behave like an old woman.
VIKRANT PARSAI To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Why does a woman want equality with men when she is already much better than a man? Is she not a mot...
DEBASISH MRIDHA A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil.
but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV Why can't a woman be more like a man?
ALAN JAY LERNER One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn...
TOM STOPPARD I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
BRITTANY MURPHY A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. Sh...
MARILYN MONROE Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves lik...
KARL KRAUS I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don...
CAMERON DIAZ A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat...
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman ...
PETER KREEFT Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was ...
JOSS WHEDON What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
ERICA JONG Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act l...
LEONOR KRETZER SULLIVAN When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
MASON COOLEY A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength again...
MARILYN MONROE All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Reason, Why a Woman is called 'WOMAN'... ? B'coz, She can wooo MAN....
ASHISH SOPHAT Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. M...
GARY BAUER …when you talk about Mike, you look like a woman who’s talkin’ about a guy she likes. You talk...
KRISTEN ASHLEY A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot i...
ADAM-TROY CASTRO A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
FLANN O'BRIEN Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the...
BARBRA STREISAND I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes call...
ALAN COOPER I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereoty...
JESSICA WILLIAMS Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
HELEN ROWLAND The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's f...
RICHARD M. NIXON There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverag...
DAVID LETTERMAN When mobile, computer or machine rules the mind, man himself becomes machine and behaves like machin...
RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA) I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN Miss Grantham ordered me to my room and told me no man would ever wish to marry me if I did not lear...
SHERI COBB SOUTH I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People wh...
VIVIEN LEIGH Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.
JESSICA HAHN We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a ...
KATHA POLLITT When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...
TOMMY DOUGLAS You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it....
CAB CALLOWAY A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
LORETTA YOUNG A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC For a woman to succeed in a man's world, she needs to think,read & work like a man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the w...
CECIL BEATON If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing he...
MONICA BELLUCCI I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
DOLLY PARTON The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"
LORI GOTTLIEB It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON Three days doesn't sound like a very long time, and under normal, everyday circumstances, it'...
BRANDON WEBB Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love h...
MAGGIE CAREY Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, ...
ALAN LERNER Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, ...
ALAN JAY LERNER You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a bril...
JERRY LEWIS Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.
RANBIR KAPOOR Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
LANCE ARMSTRONG I'd rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman's heart.
NIALL HORAN When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist mo...
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to lo...
HEATHER DUFFY STONE A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
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EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and
abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG