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It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.
Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.
I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.
What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.
God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.
Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.
The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
We need to instill the values that are important for future generations, and above all we have to show boys how to respect women.
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it.
Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women
I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.
If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.
The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
We deserve the same things that cis women do, the same things that other humans do, from our social lives to our families to love.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.