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As armed conflict is highly gendered and women
-Anon.
Peace agreements as a means for promoting gender equality and ensuring participation of women - A framework of model provisions, Report of the Expert Group Meeting, November, 2003
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A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it neo-traditionalism. To us it's a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family
-Anon., "Good Housekeeping ad in The New York Times", November 17, 1988
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Islam exhorts men to respect and honor women. The status of the wife is so respected in Islam that it is not obligatory for her to do household chores. She may do them of her own accord. But if her husband forces her to do household work, he will have to account for his conduct in the hereafter.
-Anon.
from A Woman
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This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.
-Bella Abzug
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...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
-Abigail Adams
letter to John Adams and the Continental Congress, March, 1776
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Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
-Spiro T. Agnew
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
-Maya Angelou
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
-Maya Angelou
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Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
-Susan B. Anthony
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
-Aristophanes
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
-Jane Austen
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
-Jane Austen
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.
-Honore de Balzac
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Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
-Brigitte Bardot
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.. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
-James Barrie
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What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
-Dave Barry
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The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.
-Charles Baudelaire
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We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
-Jean Baudrillard
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
-Caroline Bird
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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.
-Louise Bogan
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My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!'
-Erma Bombeck
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Books about Women
