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Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.


Victoria Billings

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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
RICHARD M. NIXON Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
RICHARD M. NIXON The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
PAT NIXON Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
CAROLINE K. SIMON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
MICK JAGGER There was an incident involving the escort of this young lady, and that's what's being investigated.
TED DENNY And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
FRANK SINATRA I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies ...
CHARLES DICKENS A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA I called out his name. I was like, Dre, Dre! A lady rode by in a green car, and she was like, he up ...
ERICA SMITH Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until...
DAVID BURR GERRARD Being a lady is an attitude.
CHUCK WOOLERY A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
JANE AUSTEN What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything ...
RACHEL ROY And in the mean time I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady.
L.J. SMITH I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as...
LYDIA M. CHILD I like a bit of spunk in a lady
LAUREN GROFF Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful a...
WAYNE ROGERS When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I believe the switch from 'lady' to 'woman' was part of the women's movement. &#...
DEBORAH TANNEN A lot of people don't give us credit for being mentally tough. At halftime, I was just like, 'Calm d...
FLO BRAZUKAS A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
SEX AND THE CITY The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
GEORGE JAMES She's like a mother to me. She treats me like a daughter. She was sweet, sweet. Lord, she was a swee...
DELL WATT I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole li...
MICHELLE OBAMA First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She ...
KAREN DECROW I like being a Girl Scout.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, ...
SUSANNA CLARKE You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.
REV. R. H. BARHAM I always like to think of her as the last of the real ladies. She was a lady all the way.
BETH BRUMBAUGH Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a sin...
ANDY GIBB She was a great lady, she tried to help as many students as she could. She was always there for me.
JAMIE JACKSON Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag...
JULES VERNE Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab ...
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I skated like a true lady. I just didn't understand why my component score was so low. It was higher...
IRINA SLUTSKAYA Your subconscious being is like a lady,it always wants to hear your positive words of affirmation,fo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that La...
OSCAR WILDE There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life i...
RACHEL JOHNSON The United States has the most energetic watercolor scene in the world.
GEORGE JAMES She was a promiscuous lady in her younger days.
FRIENDS She was a remarkable lady in her own right.
LAURENCE GLASCO I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
WILSON MIZNER My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I kno...
URSULA BURNS My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders...
ICE T It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew...
KRIST NOVOSELIC There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter...
MINNA ANTRIM O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive ...
JOAQUIN MILLER I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.
NEIL GAIMAN (Exchange with Winston Churchill)
Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to...
BETTY FRIEDAN The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ...
JOAQUIN MILLER Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
HELENA RUBINSTEIN I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for...
JANE RULE My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
BILL COSBY I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looki...
SHANIA TWAIN It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.
EUDORA WELTY She was a perfect lady - just sat in her seat and stared
EUDORA WELTY Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.
HOLLY BOURNE Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.
ROBERT STACK That sound of praising the Blessed Lady was like a saving grace for me, especially when I was at the...
AARON NEVILLE I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
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JOSH BILLINGS There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer ...
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
JOSH BILLINGS Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates
JOSH BILLINGS Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man w...
JOSH BILLINGS As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
JOSH BILLINGS It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
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