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Letter "B" » Being a Woman
«If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do»
Author: Helen Lawrenson
| About:
Being a Woman,
Doing Your Best,
Gifts,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
ambitious, gifted, practically, sufficiently
«I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me»
Author: Jane Rule
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Men
| Keywords:
height, outraged, the Graces
«In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom»
Author: Mary Ritter Beard
| About:
Achievement,
Being a Woman,
Civil rights,
History,
Possessions,
Women
| Keywords:
achievements, emphasis, martyrdom, possessions, quest, quest for, wrongs
«Ideally a woman should not have a career unless it is necessary for the financial stability of the marriage»
«I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.»
«I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.»
«I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.»
«I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle»
«If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Women
| Keywords:
base, catching, Considering, fly ball, infant, on base, saving
«It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Being a Woman
| Keywords:
Catholic, chemistry, forbidden, lawful, physics, pregnancies, pregnancy, resort, resort to
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