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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
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
    ― Rebecca West, The Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917
    tags: clichés, empowerment, feminism, opinions, women, womens-liberation
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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
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: death, feminism, men, murder, widowhood, women, womens-rights
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, death, poetry, women
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
    tags: death
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: spinsters, women
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    Saddam Hussein
    “Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.”
    ― Saddam Hussein, The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
    tags: emancipation, female-liberation, feminism, iraq, islam, women
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  • #9
    “If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.”
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    tags: adoration, advice, love, women
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    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work
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    Caitlin Moran
    “When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
    ― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
    tags: clothes, women
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: empathy, freedom, friendship, love, men, respect, women
    480 likes

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    Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    “There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
    ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    tags: jinnah, women, women-s-rights, women-s-strength-inspiration
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
    tags: women
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Musgrave Ritual - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: loss, love, maltreatment, men, mistreatment, separation, sherlock-holmes, women
    277 likes



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