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It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights
Claudia Cardinale

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore De Balzac

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally
Elena Anaya

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII

Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!
Fred Trueman

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses (Second Frutes, 1591)
John Florio

All they are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy [on men]
Michael Buerk

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

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking
Gail Sheehy

There were a couple of girls shouting at me from the floor. At first I thought they fancied me but then I worked out they were shouting at me to miss. I don't really listen to women when they shout at me. If I was at home with the wife I'd just go to the bedroom and ignore her.
Peter Manley

The difficulty we had was establishing equivalence between the men's and women's game [on golf]
Peter Dawson

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
Benjamin Spock

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell

A definition of capitalism... the process whereby American girls turn into American women. (Savages)
Christopher Hampton

The reason good women like me flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
Theda Bara

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

Worst of all, it is women who usually have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen and household, work that is unimportant, hard, tiresome, and soul-destroying
Lenin

Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble
Paul Lynde

Their bottoms are the wrong shape [dismissing women jockeys]
Lester Piggott

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
Henry Ford

I've had flings with women before, though my long-term relationships have always been with men. I was pleasantly surprised when I fell for Alice!
Rachel Williams

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No, thank you,' to dessert that night. And for what!
Erma Bombeck

Wine and women bring misery
Martial

It's great that they did it and now the French Open is going to struggle staying back [on equal prize money for women at Wimbledon]
Amelie Mauresmo

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
Phyllis McGinley

According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.
Robert De Niro

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.
Kirstie Alley

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
Elayne Boosler

We seek riches, power and glory all in order to make them happy [women]
Emmanuel Petit

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
John Akers

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Angela Carter

Don't stroke 'em, don't tickle 'em, just give 'em a ruddy good belt [on women]
Fred Trueman

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
Bill Maher

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
Yakov Smirnoff

On marrying Freddie Prinze Jr: He grew up with women so he leaves the toilet seat up.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.
Jenna Jameson

Americans like fat books and thin women.
Russell Baker

Who trusts himself to women, or to waves,
Should never hazard what he fears to lose.
John Oldmixon

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.
Teresa Heinz-Kerry

Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonourable behaviour
Bruce Friedman

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half
Emmeline Pankhurst

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
Pat Cash

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.
Paul O'Grady

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. [The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891]
Oscar Wilde

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Gary Kasparov

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Charles Fourier



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