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    Denis Waitley
    “I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet”
    ― Denis Waitley
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46489 likes

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    Scott Hamilton
    “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
    ― Scott Hamilton
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    Paul Gauguin
    “I shut my eyes in order to see.”
    ― Paul Gauguin
    tags: art, creative, inspirational
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
    28795 likes

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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
    12566 likes

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    John Lennon
    “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, men, women
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
    6530 likes

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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
    6180 likes

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    Elizabeth Peters
    “No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
    ― Elizabeth Peters
    tags: amelia-peabody, men, women
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    “I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
    ― Madonna
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    Mae West
    “I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
    ― Mae West
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    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
    ― Yves Saint Laurent
    tags: cosmetics, fashion, makeup, women
    2227 likes

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    “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
    ― Cher
    tags: marriage, women
    1886 likes

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    George Meredith
    “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
    ― George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways
    tags: women
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    Louis de Bernières
    “Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”
    ― Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin
    tags: women
    1399 likes

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    Betty Friedan
    “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
    ― Betty Friedan
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: epigram, humor, men, women
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    Barbra Streisand
    “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
    ― Barbra Streisand
    tags: husbands, marriage, men, men-and-women, wives, women
    1126 likes

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    Nicholas Sparks
    “A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: women
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
    ― Freidrich Neitzsche
    tags: philosophy, women
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    Diane Von Furstenberg
    “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
    ― Diane Von Furstenberg
    tags: friendship, life, self-love, women
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    Sena Jeter Naslund
    “If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”
    ― Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
    tags: strength, women
    845 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
    tags: love, marriage, women
    1111 likes

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    C. JoyBell C.
    “I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: funny, good-and-bad, humor, humour, life, life-and-living, woman, woman-s-character, womanhood, women
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    Paulo Coelho
    “I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: women
    1095 likes

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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
    tags: love, men, women
    661 likes

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    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”
    ― Yves Saint Laurent
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Patricia Briggs
    “Only cowards torture women.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow
    tags: cowards, torture, women
    346 likes



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