Florence Nightingale | women
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Julie Burchill | women
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
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Francesca Annis | women
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
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Clayton Christensen | women
Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help – because they grew as they served.
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Julie Burchill | women
I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
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Marya Mannes | women
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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Julie Burchill | women
There’s something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
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Sheryl Sandberg | women
If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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Julie Burchill | women
I don’t really care what people tell children – when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won’t hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.
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