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Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine ...

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One is not born a woman - one becomes one.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friend...

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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just ...

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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

If a man would move the world he must first move himself.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind,...

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view...

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When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports performan...

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What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so complicate...

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My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My fir...

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If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough...

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In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and althou...

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t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multit...

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It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi...

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Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for i...

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Stephen Jay GouldI Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History

The fundamental difference between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do.

Thank you, Men, for the railroads. Thank you, Men, for inventing the automobile and killing the red ...

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She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard do...

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Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ev...

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Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...

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A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic br...

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She is like a cat in the darkAnd then she is the darknessShe rules her life like a fine skylarkAnd w...

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Stevie NicksBest Of Fleetwood Mac (Easy Piano)

Marriage I thinkFor womenIs the best of opiates.It kills the thoughtsThat think about the thoughts,I...

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...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.

One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in th...

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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women m...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anythin...

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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so ...

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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the i...

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Susan FaludiBacklash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer,...

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Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when w...

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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women...

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine wo...

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The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days ar...

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I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - a...

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I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What d...

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The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's e...

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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an a...

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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in...

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She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, ...

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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live...

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The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male cou...

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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside...

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For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate gi...

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A lot of people think if they’re shouting the loudest, they’ll be heard, but most people lose respec...

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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men an...

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I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they d...

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If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that dire...

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Handle with care. Probably has Views. Do not attempt to kiss hand.

Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda...

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Well, the lion is a big ol’ coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness...

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And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's ...

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Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, bu...

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Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through t...

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Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, ...

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Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Al...

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It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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Thomas BrowneReligio Medici; And Other Writings

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are tho...

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Thomas HardyA Pair of Blue Eyes

When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret wi...

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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation...

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Thomas HardyFar from the Madding Crowd

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to expre...

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Thomas HardyFar from the Madding Crowd

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never...

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Thomas HardyFar from the Madding Crowd

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them parti...

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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the ...

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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, ...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sander...

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Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almo...

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Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree

I can hear the roar of women's silence

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I...

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I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.

In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the sa...

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Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's educatio...

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And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women -...

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...Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says...

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[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to...

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That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who...

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Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait--dra...

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Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look...

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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only abo...

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Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...

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Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weap...

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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. B...

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A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and go...

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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...

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