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You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good. -- James E. Faust
I'm tired of seeing great women in bullshit relationships. -- Greg Behrendt
Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things? -- Kristen Wiig
There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color. -- Kerry Washington
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. -- Nancy Greene
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? -- Karen DeCrow
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams? -- Francine du Plessix Gray
I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States, -- Elizabeth Catlett
People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through. -- Donald Margulies
It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ... -- Virginia Woolf
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly ... if you have ever seen the great women s teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be. -- James A. Michener
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice... -- Sathya Sai Baba
You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story. -- Paul Tudor Jones
There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan. -- Elizabeth Berkley
Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. -- Daniel Nayeri
She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding great women. -- Craig Ferguson
Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA. -- Bonnie Canino
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career. -- Siri Hustvedt
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives. -- Sathya Sai Baba
There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA. -- Gina Carano
I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great. -- Theophilus London
I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great. -- Theophilus London
I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers -- John Travolta
No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record. -- Siri Hustvedt
I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called 'Lore;' another director, Rachel Perkins - she's an Aboriginal director, and I've worked with her three times now, and she gave me my first film role, actually, back in 1997. -- Deborah Mailman
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed or find a still greater man to marry her. The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Behind every great woman is a great behind! -- Rhonda Shear
I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great. -- Nikki Haley
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. -- John Lennon
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. -- Walt Whitman
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. -- Christine Lahti
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. -- Dinah Shore
Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion. -- Spencer W. Kimball
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. -- Antonia Fraser
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. -- Bill Hicks
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. -- Garry Kasparov
Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal. -- Grace Kelly
I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults. -- Ava DuVernay
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models. -- Emma Bonino
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women. -- Kirsty Gallacher
It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting. -- Elisabeth Moss
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind. -- William J. Clinton
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. -- Juliette Binoche
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners. -- Alan Furst
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great. -- Candace Pert
Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear. -- Edmund Landau
I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography. -- Eliza Doolittle
I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music. -- Prince Royce
I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman. -- Woody Allen
Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write. -- Camille Paglia
When women gather, great things will happen. -- Leymah Gbowee
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I love women, I think they're great. -- Lou Reed
Manners form the great charm of women. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great ambition of women is to inspire love. -- Moliere
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type. -- Otto Weininger
... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. -- Adrienne Rich
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. -- Joseph de Maistre
Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real. -- Sharleen Spiteri
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. -- George Packer
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. -- Mary Baker Eddy
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average. -- Robert Burns
You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care. -- Trinny Woodall
I am going to support our great men and women of law enforcement. -- Donald Trump
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. -- Alphonse Karr
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. -- Henry David Thoreau
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great -- Benjamin Franklin
A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters. -- Jessica Chastain
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. -- Khalil Gibran
Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race. -- Keir Hardie
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. -- Khalil Gibran
The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it. -- Isabel Paterson
Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now. -- Garry Marshall
I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do. -- Donald Trump
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." -- Kate Zambreno
It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people. -- Quentin Crisp
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other. -- Myrtle Reed
I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues. -- Pam Grier
Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas. -- Henry Garza
The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man. -- William Blake
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths. -- Evan Esar
There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents. -- Laura Bush
I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now. -- Cindy Margolis
I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing. -- Queen Latifah
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. -- Naomi Watts
The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. -- Brian Tracy
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing. -- Erich von Stroheim
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. -- John Fowles
It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal. -- Camille Paglia
I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great. -- Kate Upton
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great. -- George Weinberg
My case was wrongfully decided, and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation. -- Norma McCorvey
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage -- Mark Twain
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were. -- Chazz Palminteri
A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen. -- Radclyffe Hall
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. -- Lindsay Davenport
Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech, -- Marissa Mayer
Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't. -- Mary Karr
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women. -- Zooey Deschanel
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. -- Rebecca Solnit
In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance. -- Robert Galbraith
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve. -- Indira Gandhi
When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.' -- Lana Parrilla
Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out. -- Aphra Behn
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! -- Rachel Stevens
I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life. -- Donald Trump
I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, Iâ??m a great guy. -- Bill Burr
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that. -- Vera Wang

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