COMMUNITIES AGAINST CAPITALISM

 

For Women's Herstory Month
  Quotations from women about women . . . . . . .

 

  The hardest years in life are

 those between ten and seventy.



  -Helen Hayes (at 73)



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  I refuse to think of them as chin

  hairs. I think of them as stray

 eyebrows.



  -Janette Barber-



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  Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"?

  Every time I hear it, 
I think I'm supposed

  to put my breast in an envelope and send

  it to someone.



  -Jan King-







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  Things are going to get a lot worse

  before they get worse.



  -Lily Tomlin-









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  A male gynecologist is like an auto

 mechanic who never owned a car.



  -Carrie Snow-



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  Laugh and the world laughs with you.

  Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.



  -Laurie Kuslansky-

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  A man's got to do what a man's got to do. 

 A woman must do what he can't.



  -Rhonda Hansome-



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  The phrase "working mother" is

  redundant.



  -Jane Sellman-





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  Whatever women must do they must do

 twice as well as men to be thought 
half

 as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  -Charlotte Whitton-



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  Thirty-five is when you finally get

 your head together and your body starts

  falling apart.



  -Caryn Leschen-







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  If you can't be a good example, then

  you'll just have to be a horrible

  warning.

  -Catherine Aird-

  



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  I'm not offended by all the dumb

 blonde jokes because I know I'm not

  dumb...
and I'm also not blonde.



  -Dolly Parton-



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  You see a lot of smart guys with dumb

  women, but you hardly ever see a smart

  woman with a dumb guy.



  - Erica Jong-



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  If high heels were so wonderful, men

  would still be wearing them.

  -Sue Grafton-

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  I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears

  makes one you can ride on.

  -Roseanne Barr-



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  I think---therefore I'm single.



  -Lizz Winstead-



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  When women are depressed they

  either eat or go shopping. Men invade

  another country.

  -Elayne Boosler-



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  Behind every successful man is a

  surprised woman.

  -Maryon Pearson

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  In politics, if you want anything

 said, ask a man--if you want anything

 done, ask a woman.

  -Margaret Thatcher-

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  I have yet to hear a man ask for

 advice on how to combine marriage and a

 career.



  -Gloria Steinem-



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  I am a marvelous housekeeper. 

  Every time I leave a man I keep his

  house.



  -Zsa Zsa Gabor-

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Nobody can make you feel inferior

  without your permission.



  -Eleanor Roosevelt-
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  I never married, because there was no

  need. I have three pets at home which


  answer the same purpose as a husband.

  I have a dog that growls every morning,


  a parrot that swears all  afternoon,

 and a cat that comes home late every

  night.



  -Marie Corelli-

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  If men can run the world, why can't

  they stop wearing neckties?

  How intelligent is it 
to start the day

  by tying a noose around your neck?

  -Linda Ellerbee-

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My second favorite household chore is

  ironing. My first being hitting my head


  on the top bunk bed until I faint.



  -Erma Bombeck-