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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
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We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge.
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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
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We don't want so much to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman schlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male schlemiel.
Source: U.S. News and World Report, 25 April 1977 -
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902) -
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
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We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
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We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.
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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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