Quotes with men-versus-women

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  • Benjamin Haydon If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Gore Vidal If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Herzen If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Virginia Woolf If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Seneca If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Herman Melville If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Callie Khouri If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Rita Mae Brown If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Orson Welles If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Agnes Macphail If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Rita Mae Brown If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • William Shakespeare If to do were as easy as to know, what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'palaces.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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