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    C.S. Lewis
    “She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: humor, women, zealousness
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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  • #3
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..”
    ― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice
    tags: funny, manga, naruto, women
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  • #4
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128893 likes

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  • #5
    “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
    ― Cher
    tags: marriage, women
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  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148387 likes

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  • #7
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13878 likes

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  • #8
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #9
    “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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  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #11
    Betty Friedan
    “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
    ― Betty Friedan
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  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #13
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130135 likes

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  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
    tags: calm, excitement, storm, women
    888 likes

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  • #15
    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
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  • #16
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: love, women, worship
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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177042 likes

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  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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  • #20
    Lilith Saintcrow
    “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
    ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
    tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women
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  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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  • #23
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #24
    Amy Sedaris
    “Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: advice, affairs, dating, jewelry, life, love, men, relationships, romance, women
    1101 likes

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  • #25
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64645 likes

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  • #26
    Katharine Hepburn
    “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: marriage, men, women
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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92172 likes

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  • #28
    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
    947 likes

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  • #29
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #30
    Harriet Rubin
    “Women have always been spies.”
    ― Harriet Rubin, Princessa
    tags: first-sentence, women
    327 likes

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  • #31
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88102 likes



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