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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.Source: Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love -
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
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Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.
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Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.
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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
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Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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Sex goes through the rhythm of the year, in man and woman, ceaselessly changing: the rhythm of the sun in his relation to the earth.
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Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
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Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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