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I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity. -- Michelle Obama
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 model for me. -- Christine Lagarde
From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women. -- Brian Kilmeade
My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement. -- Susan Sullivan
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives. -- Salma Hayek
The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary. -- Ashton Kutcher
I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women. -- Susan Isaacs
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution. -- Brian Greene
We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. -- Jack Reed
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men. -- Natalie Dormer
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas. -- Joan Armatrading
For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision. -- Ann McLane Kuster
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. -- Anne Lamott
Women are extraordinary creatures! -- Roman Payne
I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices. -- Megan Chance
We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us. -- Annie Lennox
The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction. -- Kingsley Amis
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. -- Eve Ensler
There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. -- Charles Caleb Colton
God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women. -- Jeremy Taylor
It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that. -- Julius Streicher
The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of. -- John Engler

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