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Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. – Ambrose Bierce

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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce

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Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top – C-level jobs, board seats – tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. – Sheryl Sandberg

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If a country doesnt recognize minority rights and human rights, including womens rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible. – Hillary Clinton

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Women dont want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice. – Bill Cosby

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