Quotes with men-versus-women

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  • Anita Hill But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Abraham Lincoln But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Armistead Maupin But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lydia M. Child But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Audre Lorde But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon By indignities men come to dignities.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Oscar Wilde By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrea Dworkin By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bill Buford Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Henry Vaughan Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Blaise Pascal Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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