Quotes with woman-knowledge

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  • John Milton What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Aldous Huxley What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bette Davis When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
    Source: William Martin - The Best Liberal Quotes Ever
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Clark Moustakas When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.
    Clark Moustakas
    American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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  • Edith Evans When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
    Source: Observer (30 september 1956)
    Edith Evans
    English actress (1888 - 1976)
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  • Marguerite Duras When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Tacitus When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Leon Blum When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
    Leon Blum
    French politician
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Anton Chekhov When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Alice Duer Miller When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
    All of a sudden drops out of touch;
    Is always busy and never can,
    Spare you a moment, it means a man.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adrienne Rich When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • George Orwell When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
    Source: Coming Up for Air
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Angela Davis When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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