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Quotations by Subject: Men And Women (45 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.: Tom Blair
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I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.: Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
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The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.: Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.: Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954
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She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.: Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.: Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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