Quote by Alice Walker
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smash

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my fathers head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. – Alice Walker

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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. – Alice Walker

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History
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Im for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. – Alice Walker

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Women
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. – Alice Walker

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Men
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I love vampire stories. Thats why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video. – Catherine Deneuve

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Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. – Emma Bonino

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Women

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. – Germaine Greer

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Women

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women. – Catherine Deneuve

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Truth is heavy, so few men carry it. – Jewish Folk Saying

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A promise is a comfort for a fool. – Proverb

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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasnt any Santa Claus, and hes still upset. – James G. Cozzens

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The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that youre not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, youll make yourself unhappy, because life doesnt work like that. So much is luck. Its much better to let yourself off, to think, Theres nothing I can do. – Matthew Macfadyen

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