![At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.](/assets/img/quote-photos/at-first-it-must-be-remembered-that-women-can-never-accomplish-anything-until.jpg)
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. Richard Whately
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See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them. Woody Allen
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Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school. Vanessa Bayer
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A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon. Robin Hobb
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Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five. Samuel Johnson
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Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with. Warren Beatty
women army blessing
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse? Virginia Woolf
women diversity poetry
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
women writing words-of-wisdom
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
motherhood conflict capacity
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives. Romola Garai
motherhood thinking mind
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different. Nelly Furtado
motherhood world broads
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World) John Eldredge
motherhood self charity
Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood. Edith Wharton
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The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do. Deborah Norville
motherhood men eight
I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
motherhood office preparation
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
motherhood oxygen mask
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting Amanda Peet
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Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. Ricki Lake
wife eating-alone dull
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. William Wycherley
wife pounds fats
My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round. Rodney Dangerfield
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So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God. Warren Jeffs
wife buried my-wife
Buried my wife the other day. Had to, she died. W. C. Fields
wife half capable
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. William Penn
wife people might
What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first. Jorge Posada
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You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along. Jacob Braude
wife use energy
Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz] Malcolm X
wife pimp stills
Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp. Johnny Carson