Quotes with men-versus-women

Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 2712.

  • Camille Paglia Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Herbert Hoover Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Jesse Owens People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Louisa May Alcott People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Caitlin Moran People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Graham Greene People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Mae West Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Charles Dickens Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Iris Murdoch Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Todd Andrew Reid Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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