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  • Helen Rowland Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Jane Harrison Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbra Streisand Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Woody Allen Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Candice Bergen Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Emma Goldman Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Charles Dickens Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Benjamin Watson Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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