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Women Quotes (page 160)

Angela Carter quote: "Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and..."
Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with Angela Carter
slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package of attitudes and values known as lifestyle Don DeLillo
He frequently observed, as he walked out, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he stood in a shop in Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them. Jane Austen
Nicholas D. Kristof quote: "The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor..."
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. Nicholas D. Kristof
I don't know, Jondalar. Maybe you haven't found the right woman. Maybe the Mother has someone special for you. She doesn't make many like you. You are really more than most women could bear. If all your love were concentrated on one, it could overwhelm her, if she wasn't one to whom the Mother gave equal gifts. Jean M. Auel
The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete. Barbara Kingsolver
I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. Honore de Balzac
At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen. Mark Twain
You're behaving generously, old boy, and, you know, one needs a devil of a lot of tact to get people to forgive one one's generosity. Fortunately women are frivolous and they very quickly forget the benefits conferred upon them. Otherwise, of course, there'd be no living with them.[The back of beyond] W. Somerset Maugham
But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult
Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, she still showed traces of her former beauty and seemed much younger than her years. This is generally true of women who remain serene in spirit, fresh in their impressions, and spontaneously warmhearted right to the edge of old age. One might add that in this way, and only in this way, they retain their beauty in old age too. Fyodor Dostoevsky
George W. Bush quote: "Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with..."
Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country. George W. Bush
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities. Arthur Ashe
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. Paulo Freire

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