Men And Women Quotes - Page 5

• The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

  William McFee

  Men, Sides, Warning

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

  Allison Pearson

  Children, Men, Light

  "Resistance is useless" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2002.

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• There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Civilization, Racism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.158, Beacon Press

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• Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Males, Essentials

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Thieves, Eras

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

  Propertius

  Girl, Taken, Men

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• [May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Art, Science

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• If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, People, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I never saw a ­distinction between a man and a woman. My ­grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and women, and they taught me ­equality. So I would fight with boys and wear my cousin's clothes. I would do whatever I wanted, and that's where I still stand today.

  Jhene Aiko

  Mother, Fighting, Boys

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• Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Men, Thinking, Molecules

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• I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Sorrow, Bitterness

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社

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• It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

  Eugenie Clark

  Men, Long Ago, Growing

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• Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

  Debra Messing

  Happiness, Love Is, Men

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• Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strong, Prayer, Exercise

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• The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

  Jane Addams

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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• Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

  Aldous Huxley

  Money, Reading, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

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• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Parent

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Want, Blame

  Philip Roth (2013). “The Counterlife”, p.75, Macmillan

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

  Charles A. Beard

  Men, Challenges, Humanity

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• Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

  Eleanor Bron

  Men, Differences, Perfection

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

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• There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

  Arthur Keith

  Men, Feelings, Evolution

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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