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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.


Gloria Steinem

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MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Miss Grantham ordered me to my room and told me no man would ever wish to marry me if I did not lear...
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JACKSON STEWART Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.
GELLERT You shouldn't marry someone you thought you could live with, you should marry someone you thought yo...
CAROLE MATTHEWS If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
OVID I have wished you something
None of the others would....
PHILIP LARKIN Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would...
MARY RENAULT I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?
CHAYADA WELLJAIPET Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both ...
OSCAR WILDE More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
HARLAN COBEN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You ...
LARRY MCMURTRY Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. N...
JENNIFER DONNELLY We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
DAVID MITCHELL We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
OVID If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal
SPANISH PROVERB Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve a...
PIERCE BROWN You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough convers...
JOE GIBBS I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anem...
ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia...
EDOARDO PONTI Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I c...
JOANNA RUSS We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are m...
ANNE BRONTë I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.&...
EMO PHILIPS If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDY When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was tran...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt g...
ANN BRASHARES If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who woul...
LISA KLEYPAS Well, don't just pray to marry the one you love; Instead, pray to love the one you marry.
SPENCER W. KIMBALL Marry the one who laughs when you laugh, and you are clever; marry the one who cries when you cry, a...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For ...
EVELYN WAUGH [...]
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CASSANDRA CLARE Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON I don't know how much the pope and Gloria Steinem really agreed on.
TOM RODGERS When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very ye...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.
CRISS JAMI I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
OZZY OSBOURNE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... For a man to see what these men did to my son, I wished I could go up there and kill all of them.
ROBERT ANDERSON I never wished to have to escape from my own land.
ARTURO SANDOVAL Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON I think I wished for you all of my life.
CECELIA AHERN Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not ever...
JUDY BLUME I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry an...
RACHAEL RAY I could say that maybe if I met my wife now, I would not marry her.
MAHIR MURAD We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lan...
ABU ABBAS Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejo...
DIANE ACKERMAN I'm called the saint maker. People say any woman who would marry you would have to be a saint.
JIM GENOVESE I wish they would all go away.

Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had...
ROBIN HOBB Universe first gives you; what you wished for others.
ADITYA AJMERA Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.
CATE BLANCHETT It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
H. ROSS PEROT Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
H ROSS PEROT I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, ther...
MEGYN KELLY I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA There was some questions where we had to choose (from a list) which we wished to be.
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JULIE KAGAWA Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change...
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ILKA CHASE If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers
FREDERICK THE GREAT I know how you like to be asked and not told. But I'm not asking you to marry me...I'm telling you t...
COLLEEN HOOVER If you wished to be loved, love.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If you wished to be loved, love.
SENECA I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.
ARTHUR CONAN Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
PROVERB Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
IRISH SAYINGS I never wished something extraordinary; you are more than everything.
M.F. MOONZAJER I played Carol as the mother I always wished I had, as the mother a lot of people wished they had,
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GLORIA STEINEM Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
GLORIA STEINEM The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
GLORIA STEINEM If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
GLORIA STEINEM Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
GLORIA STEINEM Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
GLORIA STEINEM Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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