Quotes 5501 till 5520 of 5767.
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
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Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
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Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 71 -
Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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