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"The great question … which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"	Sigmund Freud
"When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."	Nancy Friday
"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."	Betty Naomi Friedan
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."	Betty Naomi Friedan
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."	Robert Lee Frost
"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."	Jose Ortega y Gasset
"The society of women is the element of good manners."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight."	Terry Goodkind
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."	Learned Hand
"You know one thing that will really make a woman mad? Just run up and kick her in the butt. (P.S. This also works with men.)"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, 'Dust to dust,' some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, 'I'll be waiting for you in heaven---with a gun.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system."	Patricia Roberts Harris
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."	Katharine Houghton Hepburn
"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."	Eric Hoffer
"Man has his will - but woman has her way."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world."	Philip Howard
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Fred Allen	George Bernard Shaw	George Burns
George Eliot	George Herbert Walker Bush	George Jean Nathan
Germaine Greer	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Giuseppe Mazzini
Harold Bloom	Henry Kissinger	Henry Louis Mencken
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Jerome Klapka Jerome	Jesse Louis Jackson	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Erskine	John Fellows Akers	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Johnson	John Kenneth Galbraith	John W(illiam) Gardner
Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Joubert
Joseph Mazzini	Jose Ortega y Gasset	Jules Feiffer
Katharine Houghton Hepburn	Lady Nancy Astor	Learned Hand
Leonard Bernstein	Louisa May Alcott	Louis K. Anspacher
Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum	Mae West
Marcel Archard	Margaret Mead	Margaret Atwood
Marguerite de Valois	Martin Luther	Marya Mannes
Mary Catherine Bateson	Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maureen Murphy
Miguel de Cervantes	Mortimer Collins	Nancy Drew
Nancy Friday	Niall MacDermot	Ogden Nash
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Oscar Wilde
Patricia Roberts Harris	Pauline Frederick	Philip Howard
Quentin Crisp	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Lee Frost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Saul Bellow	Scott Bairstow
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sigmund Freud	Steve Martin
Susan B. Anthony	Terry Goodkind	Thomas Moore
Ursula K. LeGuin	W.C. Fields	Will Rogers
Willa Sibert Cather	William Congreve	William Shakespeare
William Edgar Borah	Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
Zsa Zsa Gabor	(David) Whittaker Chambers	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller