Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant RemarksQuirk Books, 15/02/2011 - 480 páginas Wit and wisdom from A to Z—a super-sized collection of inspirational quotes from bad*ss women in history and today, including Oprah Winfrey, Marilyn Monroe, and Toni Morrison. With more than 3,000 quotations on everything from fashion and feminism to men, marriage, friendship, history, technology, sports, and more, this massive compilation proves once and for all that women know everything! Each page offers wisdom, wit, and inspiration from a host of legendary women—from Jane Austen and Colette to Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Toni Morrison, Liz Phair, Ellen DeGeneres, and Naomi Klein. Here’s what they have to say about: Success “I still have my feet on the ground. I just wear better shoes.” —Oprah Winfrey Men and Women “Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backward and in high heels.” —Faith Whittlesey Being Single “I’ve never been married, but I tell people I’m divorced so they won’t think something’s wrong with me.” —Elayne Boosler Individuality “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland Family “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.” —Maya Angelou Quotations “I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking.” —Dorothy L. Sayers With contributions from writers, artists, celebrities, politicians, scientists, and legendary figures all over the world, Women Know Everything! offers addictive reading—and a superb reference—for women of all ages. |
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... FEMINIST, COFOUNDER OFMS, MAGAZINE - So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a very big dog very uncomfortable. —Marian ...
... FEMINIST, COFOUNDER OFMS, MAGAZINE - So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a very big dog very uncomfortable. —Marian ...
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... women into bigger and better consumers. —GloriastEinem (1934-) Anerican FEMINIST AND cofounder of Ms. MAGAZINE - [Advertising] legitimizes the idealized, stereotyped roles of woman as temptress, wife, mother, and sex object, and portrays ...
... women into bigger and better consumers. —GloriastEinem (1934-) Anerican FEMINIST AND cofounder of Ms. MAGAZINE - [Advertising] legitimizes the idealized, stereotyped roles of woman as temptress, wife, mother, and sex object, and portrays ...
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... cofoundER OF THE WOMAN's chrISTIANTEMPERANCE UNION - As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. —Margaret ...
... cofoundER OF THE WOMAN's chrISTIANTEMPERANCE UNION - As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. —Margaret ...
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3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes. Women grow radical with age. One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the earth. —GloriastEinem (1934-) AMERICAN FEMinist ANd cofoundER or Ms. MAGAZINE - Old age is ...
3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes. Women grow radical with age. One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the earth. —GloriastEinem (1934-) AMERICAN FEMinist ANd cofoundER or Ms. MAGAZINE - Old age is ...
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... woman of 45 and would remain so for many years. —Anita BrookNER (1928–). ENGLISHWRITER AND ARTHISTORIAN - After 40, a woman has to ... FEMINIST AND cofoundER of Ms. MAGAZINE ALCOHOL When you're 50, you start thinking about things you 27.
... woman of 45 and would remain so for many years. —Anita BrookNER (1928–). ENGLISHWRITER AND ARTHISTORIAN - After 40, a woman has to ... FEMINIST AND cofoundER of Ms. MAGAZINE ALCOHOL When you're 50, you start thinking about things you 27.
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Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |
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