Quotes 11461 till 11480 of 12035.
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Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success – for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
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Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
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Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.
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Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.
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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
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