One Woman Quotes

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.

  Rachel Gibson

  Men, Problem, One Man

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• Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Marriage, Men, People

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• Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Secret, Rest Of Your Life, Life Is

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• Living with one woman is horrific.

  John McAfee

  Horrific

  "Software entrepreneur John McAfee flees Belize, calls Portland home, for now" by Allan Brettman, www.oregonlive.com. January 13, 2013.

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• Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Strong, Character, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 532), 1895.

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• Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Men, Unions, Exclusive

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• One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

  Ben Jonson

  Women, Character, Trouble

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.409, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

  Nia Vardalos

  Trying, Actors, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Noses, Hanging On

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• In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

  Susan Griffin

  Book, Argument, Determinism

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• When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Hurt, Speak

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• Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, Home, Cutting

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• If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

  Coco Chanel

  Mean, Men, Burned

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• To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Happy Life, Simple, Surrender

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.41, A&C Black

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• Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Europe, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Success, Business, Women

  "International Women’s Day: Celebrate the Noisemakers of Past, Present, and Future" by Natalie MacNeil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.

  Emma Stone

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Were kisses all the joys in bed,
  One woman would another wed.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Witty, Sex

  William Shakespeare (1841). “The Poems of Willm Shakspere”, p.142

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• To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

  John Stuart Mill

  Understanding

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.431, OUP Oxford

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• Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet your maker." Rock, despite being Catholic replied, "My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions."

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Rocks, Catholic, Taught

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