• As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the per

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 109 reads

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• Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 87 reads

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• By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 190 reads

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• By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 54 reads

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• Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 141 reads

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• During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 80 reads

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• Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 116 reads

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• Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 48 votes · 16 reads

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• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 37 votes · 18 reads

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• For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 191 reads

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• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 162 reads

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• Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.0 · 17 votes · 89 reads

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• Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 149 reads

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• Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 140 reads

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• However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.1 · 34 votes · 172 reads

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• Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 33 reads

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• I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 12 reads

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• I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 55 reads

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• I am my own woman.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  4.1 · 24 votes · 199 reads

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• I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 167 reads

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• I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 62 reads

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• I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 193 reads

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• I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 35 votes · 115 reads

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• I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.9 · 60 votes · 139 reads

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• I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 102 reads

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• I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 155 reads

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• I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 61 reads

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• I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 121 reads

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• I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 39 reads

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• I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 121 reads

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• I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be compl

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 144 reads

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• I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.8 · 10 votes · 123 reads

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• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 83 reads

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• I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 6 votes · 0 reads

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• I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 20 reads

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• I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Ge

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 167 reads

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• I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 36 votes · 63 reads

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• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 9 reads

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• I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 66 reads

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• I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 165 reads

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• I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 195 reads

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• I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 154 reads

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• I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 82 reads

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• If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 172 reads

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• If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 102 reads

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• If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a country like India, but also up 9 percent in Japan and up 5 percent in the United States of America. It's not just a moral issue, not just a philosophica

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 77 reads

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• If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, i

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 81 reads

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• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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  Aristotle Onassis

  BusinessmanGreek1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 59 reads

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• If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 8 reads

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• If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 52 reads

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• In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 55 reads

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• In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 61 reads

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• In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all P

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 132 reads

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• In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 36 votes · 127 reads

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• In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 20 reads

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• It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.6 · 11 votes · 196 reads

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• It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 45 votes · 91 reads

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• It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  5.0 · 22 votes · 131 reads

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• It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 165 reads

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• It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 119 reads

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• It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 176 reads

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• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 186 reads

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• Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species - it is the tigress and lioness in you - which tends to defend when attacked.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.1 · 33 votes · 97 reads

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• Most women have no characters at all.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 53 reads

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• My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carrie

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 155 reads

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• My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 155 reads

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• My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 33 reads

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• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 13 reads

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• No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 84 reads

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• Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 164 reads

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• Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.9 · 39 votes · 112 reads

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• One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge e

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 114 reads

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• Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 17 reads

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• People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 21 reads

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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

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.3 · 50 votes · 128 reads

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• Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 48 reads

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• The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 128 reads

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• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 152 reads

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• The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.6 · 23 votes · 187 reads

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• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 51 votes · 120 reads

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