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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
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Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
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Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.
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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
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A woman should say: Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman? If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.
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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.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
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Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.
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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
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Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
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Were there no women, men might live like gods.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
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The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.
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Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.
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Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
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Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
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Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
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The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
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Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
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The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
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The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
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Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.
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Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
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A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
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When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
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I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
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Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.
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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men.
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Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
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To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
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I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
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The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.