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• I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Cat, Differences

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Men, Roosters, Hens

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• If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

  Lewis Black

  Compare, Ifs

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

  Gary Bauer

  Men, Views, Hatred

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• Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Needs, World, Too Much

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• It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Play

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• There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

  Michael Phelps

  Girl, Sports, Morning

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• I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Respect, Believe

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• A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Heart, Men

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• Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Pie, Feminism

  "Wrong woman, wrong message" by Gloria Steinem, articles.latimes.com. September 4, 2008.

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• We frequently find that the influence of good women is underrated. It is an influence that is often subtle but yet has tremendous consequences. One woman can make a great difference for a whole nation.

  James E. Faust

  Differences, Good Woman, Influence

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• The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude, Sex, Bed

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.67, Vintage

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• Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Sleep, Passion

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

  Robert Fulghum

  Truth, Regret, Believe

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.228, Ballantine Books

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• What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Truth, World, Splits

  "Käthe Kollwitz" sec. 3, l. 25 (1968)

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• there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

  Charles Bukowski

  Women, Ready

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• Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Evil, Girlhood

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.280, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Two, Curiosity

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• In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

  J. C. Watts

  Men, Color, Diversity

  "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Denial, Prostitution

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.

  Rick Santorum

  Men, Should, Bigots

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Men, Media

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wall, Home

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• It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Fear, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

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