Quotes with male-female

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  • Gloria Steinem For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Koldyke From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Camille Paglia Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Benjamin Franklin I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Huey Newton I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brooke Shields I have always liked lionesses. Female lions have always seemed like the best. They were really strong and took care of their babies and are beautiful.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Ben Stein I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
    Hypocrisy, Democrat Style. The American Spectator
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ann Beattie I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Brooke Elliott I'm supportive of anyone, male or female, feeling good about themselves.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Oscar Wilde If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • June Jordan If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Camille Paglia If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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