Quotes 741 till 760 of 1506.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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Marilyn [Monroe] was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971) -
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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