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“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Ifs Men Asks Difficult Genius

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.”

Men Years War Father Difficult Poor Soldier Makers Furniture Payment

Author:Trevor Nunn

“You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.”

Ifs Men Moving Difficult Walks Fronts Easier Mirrors Luxurious

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

Men Writing Firsts Young Girl Found Sex Difficult Events Scene Horse Satisfied Get Up Attractive Young Man Playwright

Author:Peter Shaffer

“Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.”

Men Difficult Roles Benefits Models Males Role Models Male Role Models

Author:Donald Miller

“If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.”

Ifs Men Would Be Difficult Tough Brilliant Businessman Negotiation

Author:Tamara Mellon

“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

Men World Way Writing Wells Looks Done Wanted Difficult Leap Imaginative

Author:Anthony Minghella

“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.”

“That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.”

Men World Seems Difficult Challenges Break Player He Man Aspect Break Through Best Players

Author:Michael Chang

“It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.”

Men Running Difficult Tasks Roots Plant Errors Favors Paradox

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?”

“The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.”

Men Lying Easy Difficult Path Journey Duty

Book:The works of mencius

Source: The works of mencius

“Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.”

Knows Men Long Difficult Numbers Secret Regard Secrecy

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].