I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
Anna Deavere Smith
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There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.
Shah Rukh Khan
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
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The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!
Tracy Morgan
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I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
Lizzo
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I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral. But I definitely want to be thought of as an artist first.
Cornelia Parker
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Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
Pamela Druckerman
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My greatest fear for my child is that he marries a woman exactly like me.
Jenny Mollen
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I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.
Pierce Brosnan
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I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost every woman on the planet has.
Hari Nef
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Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.
Amanda Eliasch
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A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.
Richard Jefferies
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The image of a pregnant woman embracing her figure and really putting it out there can be scary to some people, but I don't let that stand in my way, and I don't think other women should either.
Mary Helen Bowers
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I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.
Diane von Furstenberg
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I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
Anna Quindlen
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I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Shana Alexander
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If equal pay is that important to you, stay a single, unmarried woman. It's not the employer's responsibility to make up for the free choices of its employees made on the employees' free and private time.
Dana Loesch
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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
Loni Anderson
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I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
Courtney Love
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey
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I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.
Jenny Slate
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