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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... POLITICAL LEADER AND FIRST LADY - The children worked on each other like two indestructible pieces of sandpaper. —ELIZABETH Bowen (1899–1973). ANGLo-IRISHWRITER - Conflict begins at the moment of birth. –JEAN BAKER MILLER (1927–2006) ...
... POLITICAL LEADER AND FIRST LADY - The children worked on each other like two indestructible pieces of sandpaper. —ELIZABETH Bowen (1899–1973). ANGLo-IRISHWRITER - Conflict begins at the moment of birth. –JEAN BAKER MILLER (1927–2006) ...
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... POLITICAL LEADER AND FIRST LADY - The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. —HARPER LEE (1926–2016). AMERICAN WRITER - That's what a conscience is made of scar tissue. . . . Little strips and pieces of ...
... POLITICAL LEADER AND FIRST LADY - The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. —HARPER LEE (1926–2016). AMERICAN WRITER - That's what a conscience is made of scar tissue. . . . Little strips and pieces of ...
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... political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the ...
... political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the ...
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... politics, religion, and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society. —NAWAL ELSAADAWI (1931-) EGYPTIAN ... POLITICAL FIGURE, Sociologist, AND WIFE of SovieT LEADER MikHAILGoRBACHEV - Ours is a culture based on excess, on ...
... politics, religion, and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society. —NAWAL ELSAADAWI (1931-) EGYPTIAN ... POLITICAL FIGURE, Sociologist, AND WIFE of SovieT LEADER MikHAILGoRBACHEV - Ours is a culture based on excess, on ...
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... POLITICAL LEADER AND FIRST LADY - I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. —ELEANor Roosevelt (1884–1962). AMERICAN POLITICAL LEADER AND ...
... POLITICAL LEADER AND FIRST LADY - I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. —ELEANor Roosevelt (1884–1962). AMERICAN POLITICAL LEADER AND ...
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Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |
Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes Pré-visualização indisponível - 2011 |
Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes Pré-visualização indisponível - 2011 |
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