Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body."
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Female
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Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked."
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape."
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"If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"
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"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power."
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"I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness."
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"One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel."
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"Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style"
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"The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one."
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"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
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"There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society."
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"It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite."
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"I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations."
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"The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept."
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"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."
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"She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer."
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"Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden."
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"Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males."
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"My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body."
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"Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female."
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"If you're a strong female, you don't need permission."
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"A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use."
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"Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male."
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