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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 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.»
«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