• 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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• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 145 reads

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• The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 26 votes · 114 reads

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• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel procl

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 65 reads

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• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.9 · 29 votes · 11 reads

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• The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 88 reads

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 85 reads

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• The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 23 reads

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• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 198 reads

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• The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 62 reads

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• There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 106 reads

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• There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 156 reads

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• There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 130 reads

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• There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 40 votes · 7 reads

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• There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.8 · 5 votes · 17 reads

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• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 194 reads

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• There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 102 reads

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• There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pus

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 13 reads

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• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 0 reads

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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

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.9 · 12 votes · 101 reads

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• U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 136 reads

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• Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a l

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 12 reads

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• Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 129 reads

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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 pil

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 140 reads

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• We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 172 reads

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• We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 200 reads

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• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 29 reads

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• Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 44 reads

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• What Britain needs is an iron lady.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 146 reads

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• When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 145 reads

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• When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 46 reads

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• When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to th

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 68 reads

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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

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 55 reads

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• When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 200 reads

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• Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 45 reads

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• Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only t

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 50 reads

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• Woman is the Nigger of the World.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 16 reads

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• Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.0 · 61 votes · 11 reads

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• Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 34 reads

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• Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 198 reads

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• Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 151 reads

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• Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 3 reads

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• Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 6 votes · 185 reads

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• Women standing up for each other is critically important.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 69 reads

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• Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow - or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 16 votes · 103 reads

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• Women. They are a complete mystery.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 22 reads

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• Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.7 · 46 votes · 96 reads

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• You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 120 reads

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• You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 28 reads

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• Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 95 reads

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