Men Women Quotes - Page 7

• Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Men, World, Scylla

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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• Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Education, Women

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• Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Women, Writing, Heart

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• Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Children, Cat

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

  Ouida

  Women, Suffering, Crafts

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• The taste forever refines in the study of women.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Women, Forever, Taste

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.363

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• Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.

  John Berger

  Men, Sight, Vision

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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• You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Country, Children, Couple

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• I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is.

  Trina Robbins

  Icons, Wonder Woman, Influence

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Women, Possession, Tenderness

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• It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

  Usher

  Men, Black, Dying

  "Caught Up". Vibe Magazine, July 2008.

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• Difficult folk, these women!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Women, Difficult, Folks

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.170, Penguin

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• In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

  David Bezmozgis

  Emotion, Capacity, Pragmatic

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Eye, Men

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

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• Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Vanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

  Fay Weldon

  Children, Men, Disadvantages

  "I'm the only feminist there is - the others are all out of step". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.

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• I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

  Dorothy Stratten

  Powerful, Nice, Men

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• If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

  Aime Martin

  Women, People, Political

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• There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.

  David Letterman

  Children, Men, Earth

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

  Alison Goldfrapp

  Children, Men, Animal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

  Otto Ohlendorf

  Children, Men, Cities

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 1, 1946.

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• When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and ripple effect that kicks in when women have greater access to jobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. More food. More educational opportunity for children... By harnessing the economic potential of all women, we boost opportunity for all people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Women Are Key to Global Economy". Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2011 CEO Summit, www.thedailybeast.com. September 16, 2011.

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• One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.

  Cicely Tyson

  Equality, Men, Rights

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