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“The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.”— Sheryl Sandberg
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“For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.”— Sheryl Sandberg
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“The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”— Oscar Wilde
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“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.”— Voltaire
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“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”— Plato
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“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”— Walt Whitman
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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”— C. S. Lewis
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”— George Eliot
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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”— William Butler Yeats
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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”— Thomas Paine
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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”— Francis Bacon
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“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”— George Eliot
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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”— George Washington