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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
Faye Wattleton
Man
Woman
Seen
Tough
Demanding
High
High Priority
Excellence
Imperial
Performance
Priority
Places
Who
Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
Federico Fellini
Time
Man
Woman
Face
Beginning
Hers
Through
Masks
However
Covered
His
Ages
Certain
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
Life
Woman
Women
Destroys
Must
Taking
Between
Wit
Witty
Prisoners
Tragic
American
Lovers
American Life
Choose
Figure
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
Good
Woman
Women
Only
Football
Simply
Excuse
Male
Being
Interest
Aspiring
Special
Special Interest
Actual
Play
Play Football
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins
Time
Woman
Women
Walk
Long
Long Time
Sit
Duty
Down
Other
Others
Distant
Kind
High
Had
Opened
Geography
Offered
Establish
Door
Again
Might
Far
Chair
Hence
Seats
Right
Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.
Frank Deford
Best
Woman
Before
Took
Franklin
Athlete
Hopkins
Marshall
Had
Football
Named
Town
Bowler
Arrived
Been
Baltimore
Biggest
Games
Homecoming
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.
Frans de Waal
Patience
Woman
Animal
Women
Behavior
Example
Own
Controlling
Field
Charge
Dating
Term
New
For Example
Alpha
Terms
Also
Female
Opinions
Meaning
Acquired
Used
Who
Flirting
Originated
My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.
Frida Giannini
Beautiful
Man
Woman
See
Magazines
Something
Only
Make
Always
Real
Real Man
Biggest
Satisfaction
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Best
Man
Woman
Evil
Analysis
Bad
Best Man
Even
Last
What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.
Gene Roddenberry
Beautiful
Man
Woman
Better
Beautiful Woman
Every
Our
Kirk
More
Better Man
Bed
Go
Infinitely
Wanted
Skill
Captain
Evening
Now
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
George Balanchine
Beautiful
Man
Woman
Garden
Purely
Female
Ballet
Gardener
Thing
Flowers
If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!
George Clooney
Love
Beautiful
Me
Woman
People
Dinner
Beautiful Woman
Believe
Rubbish
Immediately
See
Having
Course
Affair
Love Affair
Her
Playboy
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot
Man
Woman
Enough
Case
Ideal
Opposite
His
Common
Being
Captivated
Suddenly
Nearly
High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat, you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move - like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a woman's wardrobe, her desires.
Giuseppe Zanotti
Beautiful
You
Woman
Animal
Beauty
Changes
Wild
Mood
High
High Heels
Follow
Lift
Idea
Feel
Like
Always
How
Move
Flat
Wardrobe
Heels
Your
Her
Desires
There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.
Gloria Allred
Woman
Hurt
Financially
Variations
Physically
Emotionally
New
How
Endless
Socially
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Gloria Steinem
Woman
Path
Men
Power
Before
Think
Hood
Only
Making
Should
Twice
Widow
Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.
Harry Harlow
Man
Woman
Fool
Win
Superior
Stupid
Consider
Tries
Never
He
Talk
Couple
Trait
Happens
Which
Speaking
A woman's gifts will make room for her.
Hattie McDaniel
Woman
Will
Gifts
Make
Room
Her
I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'
Helen Mirren
You
Woman
Culture
World
Live
Every
Think
Back
Our
Say
Would
Take
Feminist
Were
Years
Articulate
Any
May
Refuse
Want
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland
Wise
Man
Woman
Salt
Sugar
Everything
Says
He
Puts
Takes
She
Grain
Her
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
Helmut Newton
Woman
Car
White
Live
Backgrounds
Paper
Hotel
Hotel Room
Like
She
Does
Motor
Motor Car
Front
Room
Lives
Street
It is not a woman I want - it is all women.
Henri Barbusse
Woman
Women
All Women
Want
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Woman
Guardian
Affection
Past
Every
Some
Object
Disappeared
Pious
Which
Loving
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams
Man
Woman
Only
Through
Wrong
Known
Who
My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.
Henry Cavill
Thankful
Family
Woman
People
Strong
Mother
Made
Other
Incredibly
Caring
Extremely
Strong Woman
Support
She
Well
Boy
Five
Loving
Us
Really
Each
Her
Raised
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James
Great
Man
Woman
About
Superiority
Never
Over
Another
Opinion
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