But of course Britain since 1979 has had a woman prime minister, while no woman has ever come near to being president of the United States.

You can't spend months studying the history of the suffrage movement without gaining a new appreciation for the grit and gumption it takes to be a powerful woman leader.

But this woman is a nice German woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.

Dr. J. H. Vincent, the great lecturer, says that a man's greatness consists in his courage; his inherent nobleness; his noble deeds, great exploits, and benefits to the world; but that behind every great man is a great woman - his mother.

During World War II, many women worked as blacksmiths in the shipbuilding industry and found they liked the challenging, independent work.

There is nothing wrong with Melissa or the way she was raised. She is a sweet, kind, intelligent woman with a generous heart and more love for her child than you and Mother ever showed for either of your children.

I am Woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore

For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.

Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay—[…]

At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.

There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.

And then, when he lies with his woman, the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.

Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman. I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.

[…]he should prove, from the testimony of the most experienced seamen, that the vessel was, if not, strictly speaking, sufficiently manned, yet that she was sufficiently manned and womanned. The Gypsey was a vessel of 43 tons burden, and there were on board two able seamen and the Captain’s wife, who was a very good sailor;

Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.

Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned) by able drivers would be unable to move.

The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”

English

behind every great man there stands a woman

behind every successful man there stands a woman

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

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