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Joseph Califano

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CHRISTOPHER FUDGE I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
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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 The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil. but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV 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 If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly...
CHLOE THURLOW Underwear is the female second skin.
CHLOE THURLOW When you undress a woman you discover in her lingerie clues to her mood and desires. These whispers ...
CHLOE THURLOW 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 What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter...
MINNA ANTRIM I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive ...
JOAQUIN MILLER It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER 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 Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON Ideally a woman should not have a career unless it is necessary for the financial stability of the m...
MELISSA SADOFF When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age
VOLTAIRE The architecture of a woman's body is really amazing
SOTONYE ANGA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another.
ZENG HAN JUN Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT!
BETTY GRABLE I'm a non-believer. I don't believe in the existence of a God. I don't believe in the Christian dogm...
JANE RULE The American watercolor scene today is about innovation and energy.
GEORGE JAMES With home theater and media centers, there has been such an electronics boom within the last five ye...
GEORGE JAMES Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
JANE RULE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"
LORI GOTTLIEB A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER It's a simple thing to triumph over your enemies; to confused them and make them unable to retaliate...
J.R. MORALES These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself kno...
CHRISTINA LAUREN If you feel your wife does not understand you, i suggest you try understanding her
SOTONYE ANGA I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live...
TASLIMA NASRIN 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 The United States has the most energetic watercolor scene in the world.
GEORGE JAMES We can work in new homes, or retrofit existing homes through wireless control. We're making homes mo...
GEORGE JAMES Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a ...
MANDY HALE A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.
ROBERT BLACK For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though sh...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
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NAFISA JOSEPH I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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JOSEPH ROUX Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
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JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL