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“The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.”

Men May Has Beens Used Purpose Causes Women Moral He Man Behavior Female Sexism Categories Masculinity Misguided Harlots

Author:Margaret Truman Daniel

“Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.”

Men Way Life Has Beens Women Change Morning Crime Six Deserve Tired Denied Subway

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.”

Men Children Women

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.”

Men Needs Art Book Women Sin Answers Records Tears Angel Folly Men Women

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.”

Men Way Women He Man Lovers Accounts Regard

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.”

Men Heart Faces Women Reflection Connections Mirrors Wide Instant

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.”

Knows Men Want Trying Real Done Women Trouble Theory Type Goes On Patterns Idealism Hysterical

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?”

Thinking Men Death Mother Women My Own

Book:St Mawr and Other Stories

Source: St Mawr and Other Stories

“It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.”

Men Soul God Women Religious Activity Highest Claims Responsible Supreme

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.”

Men Belief Force Women Safe Bounds Destructive

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.”

Men Women Leadership Pioneers

Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.”

Men Women Imagination Understood Men And Women

Author:H. G. Wells

“Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.”

Men Made Home Grows Women Sun Fields He Man Masters Garden Window Train Rounds Setting Settings Toil Shields Vines Hoe Enclosure

Author:Joanna Baillie

“One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.”

Knows Men Want Writing Humans Littles Has Beens Running Faces Religion Names Women Path Modern Childhood Adventure Fame Ancient Currents Phases Obliged Continuity Modern Woman

Author:Mary Antin

“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”

“TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.”

Men Light Spirit Waiting Women Conversation Bird Relation Yesterday Inward Parrots

Author:Susanna Centlivre

“Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.”

Men World Children Important Language Women Needed Conversation Wide Tongue Parks Neighborhood Friendly Companion Translate

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.”

Men Has Beens Stills Humanity Women Ability Half Blood Months Drama Disease Female Injury Primitive Gore Bleeding Phoenix Each Month

Author:Estelle Ramey

“Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.”

Men Art Women Genius

Author:Joseph de Maistre

“Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.”

Men World Mind Has Beens Women Feet Victory Lays Glad Muscles Peasants Monarchs Loveliness

Book:Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

“Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.”

Ifs Men Helping Beautiful Women Levels Pay Wise Foolish Height Truthful Deference She Is Beautiful

Author:Mary Abigail Dodge

“The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.”

Men Use Sex Women Born Honor Equal Realms Degradation Birthright Subjection

Author:Mary C. Ames

“A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.”

“Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.”

Men World Giving Helping Moving Women Movement Highest Men And Women Raises Privilege Womens Rights Can Not Advancement Lifting Moving Ahead Impetus

Author:Frances Harper

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.”

Men Years Looks Women Wife Ten Six Years Ago Weight Breathing Pounds Fewer Exes Ex Wife

Author:Cathy Crimmins

“I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.”

Ifs Men Believe I Believe Women Equal

Author:Alice Moore Hubbard

“It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.”

Men Courses Women Loses Worry Husband Losing Privilege Gender Reactions Worried Privileged Haunting Gender Equality Obstinate

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.”

“American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences.... Social feminists [in Europe]believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers.”

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Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“Woman is the lesser man.”

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.”

Men Way Wells Looks Littles Dies Women Born Loses Baby Flow Rivers Streams Farms Jerk Waterfalls

Author:Nunnally Johnson

“A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.”

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

“But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.”

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Book:The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

“Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?”

Men Said Women Heard Men And Women

Book:The Complete Sonnets and Poems

Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”

Men Women Grace Effects

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.”

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

“The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.”

Men Needs Women Quality Duty Majority Motherhood

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.”

Men Women Comfort Acts Of Service

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.”

Men Language Women Half Reasoning Men Women Parity

Book:The Role of Women

Source: The Role of Women

“For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.”

Men Believe Self I Believe Women Sacrifice Superiors Brutes Self Sacrifice

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.”

Men Doe Self Today Women Sacrifice Advantage Realising Men Women Self Sacrifice Personification

Book:Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women

Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women

“Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.”

Men Country Young Women Conditions Young Man Womanhood Discredit Dowry Dishonour

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.”

Ifs Men World Want Play Women Affair Refuse Men Women Deck

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?”

Men Should Women Female Purity

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”

“Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.”

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Author:Katharine Hepburn

“When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.”

Men Trying May Mean Doe Stills Moments Women Natural Powerful Rocks Tears Members Office Weapons Tongue Formidable Alpine

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.