Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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Related Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; ... GEORGE SANTAYANA As men “think” they are chasing sex and women “think” they are chasing relationships, when i... VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ... GEORGE SANTAYANA When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. JOHN GRAY We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the GREG BEHRENDT Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their... CARL BECKER Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define... RITA MAE BROWN Men and women will retain their sex in heaven POPE JOHN PAUL II Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex. YASMINE BLEETH Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use... DAVID P. BRYDEN Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the wa... RACHEL PERRY Women are men without money. PAUL SAMUELSON I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't. ZOE LISTER-JONES I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ i... AGNES GUND Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex. YASMINE BLEETH Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes ... GEORGE JEAN NATHAN When it comes to sexuality, romantic love plays a large part in feminine sexual scripts. Research su... SUSAN SHAW The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is ... MARILYN FRENCH Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by ... ANDREA DWORKIN When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. GEORGE SANTAYANA I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain... CANDACE BUSHNELL Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those t... 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ANDREA DWORKIN Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. MICHAEL KORDA And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as frie... VIRGINIA WOOLF Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obse... BARBRA STREISAND Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and frag... JERRY RUBIN Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr... JERRY RUBIN Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men... JERRY SEINFELD Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions ... LZ GRANDERSON Liberalism has produced women that are driven like men to succeed and men that succeed in being driv... DANIEL BRYANT GATES I don’t think women are made only for sex; they can turn men into wolves and make them fight till ... M.F. MOONZAJER I think women have the advantage over men - they tend to be much more in touch with their feelings a... TOBEY MAGUIRE Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings. LORD CHESTERFIELD Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reaso... GEORGE CARLIN [Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not t... MILOVAN DJILAS I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. NEIL GAIMAN Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds. YAKOV SMIRNOFF Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. ANDRE MAUROIS I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminate... DINAH SHORE Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God... EVELYN WAUGH Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? VIRGINIA WOOLF Men are simple minded. The fact that women can't understand them, begins to show just how complex th... JOHN T WALSH I don't regret what I did at all. It's consensual sex, ... These are men who are billionaires and th... HEIDI FLEISS Most people couple within their own height range- short couples are 8 percent apart, midsize couples... ARIANNE COHEN In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal ... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do... BELL HOOKS I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared ... OLIVIA WILDE We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiot... MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; foll... GERMAINE GREER I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive. KAREN BASS It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and wome... GAVIN DE BECKER The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for wo... CATHERINE WYLER The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for wo... CATHERINE HARDWICKE Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength.... JONATHAN SWIFT Men are blind in their own cause. HEYWOOD BROUN Men are blind in their own cause. NEYWOOD BROUN By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live... MANDY MOORE It seems to me highly improbable that women are going to realize their human potential without alien... ELIZABETH JANEWAY The reason there are more women than men is simply because there are more illiterate women than men.... AMAL CHARARA The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their... BERTRAND RUSSELL Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change ... CRAIG GROESCHEL In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not on... PEDRO ALMODOVAR Is it men or women who work the
most in slaughterhouses?
Is it men or women who are
most involved in... O ANNA NIEMUS Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. LOIS WYSE Women are under-represented in science in general, and in the areas where women are working with men... JENNIFER CAMPBELL There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. ULYSSES S. GRANT If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men. ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men. SHERYL SANDBERG I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this busi... MEGAN FOX Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. MAE WEST For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the si... JOHN JOHNSON I think that men are more surpressed then women. At home their wife is boss, and seldom they are bos... ANNIE SCHMIDT I think that men are more surpressed then women. At home their wife is boss, and seldom they are bos... ANNIE M.G. SCHMIDT When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them c... SUSAN CHEEVER In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.' SYLVIA EARLE Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destr... JUAN FILLOY That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be... EDWARD CARPENTER In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are... GEORGE BALANCHINE Men are actually the weaker sex. GEORGE WEINBERG Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the cus... HERODOTUS Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by th... JOHN JOHNSON
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MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ... MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera... MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow... MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe... MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn... MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu... MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning. MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no... MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w... MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n... MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and... MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p... MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew... MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha... MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ... MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air... MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye... MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ... MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O... MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that... MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven. MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan... MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we... MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR