956 quotes found
“My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness ...”
“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave”
“To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.”
“A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.”
“I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my d...”
“I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tend...”
“Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?”
“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”
“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abs...”
“Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.”
“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 t...”
“Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.”
“Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is ...”
“Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members...”
“It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men”
“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”
“Well, the lion is a big ol coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness. Theyre killers, and they hunt together. Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to ...”
“A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.”
“Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze...”
“Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.”
