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Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks it is health and an attitude to life.

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Nancy Astor
Age: 84 †
Born: 1879
Born: May 19
Died: 1964
Died: May 2
Feminist
Politician
Socialite
Suffragist
Danville
Virginia
Nancy Witcher Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor
Lady Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor
Viscountess Astor
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My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
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I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
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It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
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Grass is growing on the Front Bench.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
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Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
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What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
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A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
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