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If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.


Susan B. Anthony

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HANAN ASHRAWI I think divorce is equally painful for both men and women, but it affects women in different ways. L...
DONNA FERBER The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fideli...
EZRA TAFT BENSON It delays marriage. Men marry too late from the point of view of women, especially educated men. It ...
DAVID POPENOE Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's ...
BETTY FRIEDAN There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Marriage is a device originated by women for looting the men.
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RANDY THOMASSON If there are trust issues during the dating period, marriage is not going to solve it! #Tip
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SHERYL SWOOPES Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
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LYDIA M. CHILD It shows the old value system that 'women should be less established and less qualified than men' do...
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ORSON F. WHITNEY There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happ...
ASHLEY RICE I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts up...
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ADAM ROSS This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and difference...
ALBERT BROOKS No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and wome...
GAVIN DE BECKER I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making...
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B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug...
SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
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