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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
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Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 71 -
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.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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Women. They are a complete mystery.
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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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