Quotes with woman-being

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  • Harry S. Truman Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Jean Paul Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anais Nin Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Luigi Pirandello 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.''
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Andrea Dworkin 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.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Woman often feigns love; man, oftener, passion.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Woman was God's second mistake.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Helen Rowland Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Pope Woman's at best a contradiction still.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Marquis de Sade Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Dryden Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Josh Billings Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Camille Paglia 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.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem 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.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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