#woman

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#any #beat #chess #difficult #i

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#her #kids #know #like #long

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#closet #express #free #general #heard

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco. ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#believe #cigarette #day #first #i

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court. ↗

— Nina Totenberg

#cared #court #day #having #how

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#because #classified #feels #how #i

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. ↗

— Alice Walker

#either #else #fact #give #got

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. ↗

— Charles V

#commonly #fortune #further #goes #intensely

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#film #make #me #rodin #sculpture

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#american #american film #american public #boston #film