Men And Women Quotes - Page 23

• A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Beautiful, Queens

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.33, Herman Melville

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• Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

  Mason Cooley

  Knowledge, Men, Unhappy

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• Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Dream, Country

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• I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Men, Doe

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• You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

  Albert Camus

  Warrior, Men, Trying

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• What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Ideas, Political

  John Dos Passos (2013). “1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.

  John Dos Passos

  Marriage, Crazy, Mean

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.

  Woody Allen

  Country, Men, Eight

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• The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

  Gail Sheehy

  Struggle, Flower, Men

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• There is a calm for you where men and women
  Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

  Allen Tate

  Moving, Men, Feet

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Dirty, Boys

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.150, Vintage

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• I am not for women but against men.

  Karl Kraus

  Men

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

  Karl Kraus

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

  Stendhal

  Ambition, Power, Men

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• That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Dirty, Responsibility

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• It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Dedication, Self

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.140, Ballantine Books

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• Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Mind, Courtship

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• [I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivation, Princess, Mean

  'A Sentimental Journey' (1768) 'Montriul'

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• The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

  Anton Chekhov

  Change, Blow, Men

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• You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Women, Want, Today

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• Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Minutes, Conversation

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Men, Example

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

  Marlo Thomas

  Men, Feminist, Facts

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• When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Philosophy, Home, Men

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• It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Father, Son, Men

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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