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• Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

  Gloria Steinem

  Work, Care, May

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• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  Vera Miles

  Love You, Men, Ancient

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Long, Population

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• Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

  Bill Maher

  War, Law, Usa

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're fighting for your country. There's a double standard here.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Fighting, Injury

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable.... However, we do not accept the same standard when it comes to our personal life. If we did, we would resign ourselves to being shortchanged now and then when we cash our paychecks. We would expect hospital nurses to drop a certain percentage of all newborn babies. We would expect to go home to the wrong house periodically. As individuals we do not tolerate these things. Thus we have a double standard, one for ourselves, one for the company.

  Phil Crosby

  Baby, Believe, Home

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• I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

  LIZ

  Men, Calm, Standards

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Unfaithful, Standards, Reader

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Knowing Who You Are, Want

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].

  Ishmael Reed

  Dream, Father, Past

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't want anybody to be under a misunderstanding. Donald Trump never even said the word "assassination." That was the word used by Hillary Clinton in 2008, which CNN is calling a gaffe. (impression) "But Trump meant it! Yeah, Trump, he meant it." With Hillary, "It was a gaffe! We all know Hillary Clinton, and we all know Hillary Clinton didn't really mean what she said." Yeah, right. Double standards.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Cnn, Calling

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.

  David Cross

  Thinking, Yelling, Media

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

  Fernando Perez

  Cuba, Way, Standards

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of sanitizing recourse to indiscriminate force by both governments that causes widespread death of innocent civilians. This double standard is built around the current way in which the vocabulary of terrorism is being used in this country.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Vocabulary, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity means nothing but a political and administrative support of terrorist acts

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Media, Support

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• It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

  Alvin Lee

  Double Bass, Firsts, First Time

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• We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.

  Joe Dumars

  Night, Thinking, Hands

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• The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.)
  Denial of Agency: She didn't write it.
  Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it.
  Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about.
  False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"?
  Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.61, University of Texas Press

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• Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Father, Women

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• Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

  Lynn Shelton

  Men, Thinking, Directors

  "Interview with Lynn Shelton, Director of Humpday". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2009.

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• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

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• Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Ghetto, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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