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Nancy Astor

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Quotes by Nancy Astor

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I married beneath me, all women do.
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Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing...
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The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about ‘shrieking sisterhoods’ and ‘disappointed spinsters’ and rubbish of that sort.
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Anyone’s blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
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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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I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world – except a woman-governed world.
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From the American newspapers you’d think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
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When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: “Am I dying or is this my birthday?”
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It isn’t the common man at all who is important: it’s the uncommon man.
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Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all.
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