I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

—Elayne Boosler

About Elayne Boosler

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Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952) is an American comedian, writer, and actress.

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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

—Elayne Boosler

Peacekeeper missile." Doesn't that sound like "ax-murderer baby sitter"?

—Elayne Boosler

If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country—it's a whole other way of thinking.

—Elayne Boosler

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Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts.… To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.

—Albert Schweitzer

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How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.

His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!

—William Shakespeare

He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.

—William Shakespeare

Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.

—William Shakespeare

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