Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1331.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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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.''
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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.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Woman often feigns love; man, oftener, passion.
Source: The maxims of Marmaduke -
Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
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Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
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Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
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Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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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.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
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