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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: anonymous, poetry, woman
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: independence
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    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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    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
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    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
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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
    6174 likes

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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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    Robert Jordan
    “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: forgiveness, men, women
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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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    Lilith Saintcrow
    “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
    ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
    tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women
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    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
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    “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
    ― Roseanne Barr
    tags: feminism, power, women
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    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women
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    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
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    Gloria Steinem
    “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, 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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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Gilda Radner
    “I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”
    ― Gilda Radner
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    Patricia Briggs
    “Only cowards torture women.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow
    tags: cowards, torture, women
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: feminism, sisterhood, women
    514 likes

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    Martha Gellhorn
    “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
    ― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
    tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women
    2350 likes



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