1001 List
1001: The Essence of Womanhood
To honour women on this day, International Women’s Day, let us celebrate them in all their glory, greatness, intensity, power, immensity, strength, idiosyncrasy, weakness, fun, aptitude…. just to begin with.
I love the song by Space Female Of The Species. But did you know who the original of the quote?
It was by Rudyard Kipling who opined that “The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
What they say about women:
A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantine that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
– Cher
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
– Gloria Steinem
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
– Virginia Woolf
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
– Marlene Dietrich
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
– Gloria Steinem
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Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
– W C Fields
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Women should be obscene and not heard.
– Groucho Marx
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
– Timothy Leary
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Iconic Women:
If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
– Margaret Thatcher
BASHIR: Do you think Mrs Parker-Bowles was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage?
DIANA: Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
– Tallulah Bankhead