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“Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

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“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: gifts, love, self-confidence

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“Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

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#4

“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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#5

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: love, romance, work

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#8

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#9

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
― Timothy Leary

tags: ambition, equality

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#10

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women

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#11

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women

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#12

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

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#13

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: beauty, class, fashion, girls, women

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#14

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

tags: love, relationships

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#15

“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

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#16

“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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#17

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: men, rescuing, women

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#18

“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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#19

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women

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#20

“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: sex-appeal, women

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#21

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women

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#22

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#23

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source

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#24

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love

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#25

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, love

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#26

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: alone, attributed-no-source

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#27

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs

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#29

“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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#30

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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