Quotes with men-versus-women

Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 2712.

  • Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Carroll Quigley The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bobby Flay The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Joseph R. Sizoo The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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  • Adam Smith The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Carolyn Maloney The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Billy Collins The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Plato The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Louise Bernikow The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
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  • Alice Walker The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • René Descartes The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Camille Paglia The real butches are straight... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • George Orwell The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • B. F. Skinner The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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