Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 2607.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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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 for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: ''Blind yourself, for I am blind.''
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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 is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Woman often feigns love; man, oftener, passion.
Source: The maxims of Marmaduke -
Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
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Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
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Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
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Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
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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