Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
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comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt. CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, th... WALTER H. JUDD I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news.... ELIZA DOOLITTLE She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. RALPH MCGILL She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. RALPH MCGILL She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. RALPH MCGILL Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. PETER MANDELSON Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are t... CHRISTINE LAGARDE So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the ... WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor
Roosevelt. RALPH MCGILL Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A lot of the artists have developed relationships with family members of men and women they portraye... ANNETTE POLAN The women also ... are given a quiz asking them what's their primary form of contraception and their... JENNIFER ADAMS So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the ... WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was ofte... A. S. BYATT Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are domin... CHARLOTTE LAMB It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and wome... GAVIN DE BECKER Men, women and children, our fellow countrymen have now gone days - days - without food and far too ... ELIJAH CUMMINGS I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates t... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male... ALLAN G. JOHNSON There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; s... WILLIAM BOOTH Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms w... JENNY SHIPLEY 85 percent of the health decisions are made by women for their families. We try to bring many resour... JUDY ARRINGTON Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi... MARCEL PROUST There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER Many women have made great men; and just as many has destroyed them KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to... KUMI NAIDOO The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Bord... KENNETH TYNAN Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roose... KATHY COLLINS Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women... JENNY SHIPLEY It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both... ANDREW COHEN History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated ... SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative atti... JOEL OSTEEN Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest. HANIEL LONG I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal esta... HAROLD FORD, JR. With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made. DAMON THUESON Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and ... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there ... W.B. YEATS She has a nice voice, but she looks a little bit too much like Eleanor Roosevelt. LAWRENCE WELK I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men —even fiction... K. LEE LERNER Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalit... NAOMI WOLF A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, musc... NAOMI WOLF But you do have disadvantages, ... Some of the important family decisions made are often not good bu... RONALD COHEN One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are... ANNE FADIMAN When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that... HENNING MANKELL A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppos... JOHN DRINKWATER Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a... JULIAN HUXLEY Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impa... BILLY GRAHAM I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without su... ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch fou... PLUTARCH Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do... FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do... FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE No one should be astonished if in the following discussion of completely new princedoms and of the p... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Nor ,the food given by those who knowingly bear with paramours ,of their wives , and by those who in... GURU NANAK Why is it so universally upsetting for men to have women around them on anything like a footing of e... KATHERINE WHITEHORN There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumpin... NORA ROBERTS Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made ... GAIL COLLINS In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost... TOM FRIEDEN A smile costs nothing but gives much. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts fo... OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in th... BRIAN HARRIS Is it men or women who work the
most in slaughterhouses?
Is it men or women who are
most involved in... O ANNA NIEMUS I believe that the senior citizens of today have been overlooked as sources of strength, stability a... JOE MANCHIN “We are grateful those who have given so much in the service of our great country. We need to add ... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too gr... SASKYA PANDITA What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our vi... CHARLIE KAUFMAN Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workp... AIDA ALVAREZ Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who hav... ALBERT CAMUS Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. ANDRE MAUROIS There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emerge... ANNA QUINDLEN Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its pati... NAOMI WOLF Well-behaved women seldom make history. LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH Never allow anyone to take advantage of you in no shape form or fashion. People get into relationshi... AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I th... ANITA HILL Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cu... FATEMA MERNISSI Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking ski... PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the b... BARACK OBAMA Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, tho... BEV PERDUE Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are oft... JOSEPH ADDISON Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to... WES ''SCOOP'' NISKER Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w... ANTHONY BOURDAIN It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer n... MICHAEL SPECTER As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights give... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or ... ELIZABETH GILBERT People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of... RATAN TATA French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies,... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it.... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peac... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of ensla... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention t... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it? ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as muc... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you sto... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do one thing everyday that scares you. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confi... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT «Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.» ELEANOR ROOSEVELT "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT