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- That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
- Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Ain't I A Woman, a speech delivered in 1851
- No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
- Paris Hilton (1981 - )
- A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
- American Proverb
- A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
- Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
- Halle Berry
- That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Women's Convention, Akron Ohio, 1851
- Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.
- Debra Messing
- It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
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