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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world be...

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man...

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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...

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Fulton J. SheenLife Is Worth Living

Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any...

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We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep wit...

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She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a centur...

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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she w...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous...

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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically strong...

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Women, you have all this power, I’m telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred ...

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Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify h...

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as...

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The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love ...

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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to rest...

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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reaso...

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George CarlinWhen Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often h...

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

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George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-minded...

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George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel

The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement...

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So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to ...

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The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ...

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All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

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George R. R. MartinA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...

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Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on t...

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The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state...

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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they ha...

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Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; foll...

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Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's...

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All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no societ...

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Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...

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Thirty years on, femininity is still compulsory for women—and has become an option for men—while gen...

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The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious in...

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I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the f...

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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...

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She was tall and well-made, on an ample scale; her skin looked as if it had the flavour of fresh cre...

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I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly ...

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My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult li...

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In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For in...

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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...

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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...

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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and o...

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Most women are one man away from welfare.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...

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If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have hea...

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Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of ...

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Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against ...

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Gloria SteinemOutrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word...

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No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to f...

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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

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Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you r...

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Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation ...

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When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one e...

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

But a lady forced is never a lady won

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Gregory BenfordFoundation's Fear

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

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The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are ful...

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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've tr...

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Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

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Groucho MarxMemoirs Of A Mangy Lover

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all ...

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Groucho MarxMemoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and ...

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The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we rec...

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what th...

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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he enc...

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He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts ...

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The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of d...

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Gustave FlaubertSentimental Education

There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and wi...

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The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

The only path of escape he could conceive as yet for Lady Harman lay through the chivalry of some ot...

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He perceived too in these still hours how little he had understood her hitherto. He had been blinded...

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This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his con...

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H. G. WellsThe Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in l...

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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has be...

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, th...

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On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regar...

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Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as...

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And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful att...

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By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service,...

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Immoral women do not exist", said the organist. "That this only a superstition. On the other hand th...

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Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them.