"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something."

Jensen, Eric on learning
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"Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."

Knight, Charles on excellence   

"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."

Miller, Shannon on expectation
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"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."

Gomme, Alison on bosses and employees   

"If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world."

Boseley, Sarah on power   

"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Millet, Kate on women
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"I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."

Meredith, George on women
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"To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man."

Meir, Golda on women
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"I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?"

Madonna on women
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"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

Luce, Clare Boothe on women
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"You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her."

Leverson, Ada on women
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"Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian."

Lebowitz, Fran on women
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"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football."

Lebowitz, Fran on women   

"If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks."

Nelms, Cynthia on women
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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

Murdoch, Iris on women   

"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned."

Unknown, Source on women
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"There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm."

Sills, Beverly on women
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"I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year."

Sharp, Becky on women   

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"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me."

Rooney, Mickey on women
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"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."

Paglia, Camille on women
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

Onassis, Aristotle on women
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"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself."

Lawrence, D. H. on women   

"Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds."

Kempton, Sally on women
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"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."

Friedan, Betty on women   

"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it."

Bird, Caroline on women
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"What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series."

Barry, Dave on women
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on women
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"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."

Austen, Jane on women
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"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss."

Ravitch, Diane on bosses and employees
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"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on bosses and employees
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"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter."

Grant, Albert A. on bosses and employees
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"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

Carter, Angela on women
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"You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on women
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"When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"

Evans, Dame Edith on women
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