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It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
Doesn't she know that numberless women have walked past mirrors hoping for a hint of Bacall's slinkiness?
Os guerreiros de ca na o buscam mavo rticas damas para o enlace epitala" mico; mas antes as preferem do ceis e facilmente troca v eis por pequeninas e vola teis folhas de papel a que o vulgo chamara dinheiroo 'curriculum vitae'da Civiliza c° a o. The warriors here do not seek out mettlesome women for epithalamic conjunction, but prefer them docile and willing to exchange with ease their favours for those small and deliquescent leaves of paper which the masses call moneythe curriculum vitae of Civilization.
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
The sadness of the women's movement isthat they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Man sol so" vrouwen ziehen das si u« ppecl|"che spru« che lasen under wegen. Women should be trained in such a way that they avoid idle chatter.
The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and to elect lawmakers.
Women are from their very Infancy debarred those advantages, with the want of which they are afterwards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect brick where theyafford no straw.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemnedandstroveagainst inonecase, andsohighly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
I married beneath me. All women do.
Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poorwhich is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested init tells me nothing that does not vex or weary methe men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
Empires and old women are more happy many times in their cures than learned physicians, because they are more exact and religious in holding to the composition and confection of tried medicines.
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around.
Ithink it iswellalsofor themaninthestreettorealizethat there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will tell him, the bomber will always get through.The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly thanthe enemy if you want to save yourselves.
I want you to sound like 22 women having babies without chloroform.
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
Most women are not so young as theyare painted.
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
One of the few things I have learned in life isthat there is invariablysomething odd about womenwho wearankle socks.
Saul and Jonathan were lovelyand pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
But king Solomon loved many strange women.
The first wrote,Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote,Women are strongest: but above all thingsTruth beareth away the victory.
By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: doye not labourand toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers; And looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.
Wine and womenwill make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
Women have no wideness in them Theyare provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
I never saw such a place for merched anllad [wanton women] as Northampton.
La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, preciselyas men would sufferit is thoughtless to condem them, or laugh at them, if they seek to domorethancustomhas pronounced necessary for their sex.
But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do isgive an impersonation of desire, or better still, of secret knowledge, for a woman to feel herself a source of power.
There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together. Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
Chic is a convent for unloved women.
According to an opinion poll,13 per cent of women in the United States cannot say whether they wear their tights under their knickers or over them. That's something like a million women walking around in a state of chronic foundation garment uncertainty.
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
Of women's unnatural, unsatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
Modelizers area particular breed.They'rea step beyond womanizers, who will sleep with just about anything in a skirt.Modelizers are obsessed not withwomen but with models. They love them for their beauty and hate them for everything else.
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Foul as their soil, and frigid as their snows. The lamps that shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merryas a marriage bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!
Our cloudy climate, and our chilly women. 181
Sweet is revengeespecially to women.
Then tell me why Thisgoblin Honour which the world adores Should make men atheists and not women whores.
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I have committed adultery in my heart many times.God recognizes I will do that, and forgives me.
All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
There is anothercause which, if you indulge it, canmake yourhand sounsteady that it will waver more, and flutter far more, than leaves do in the wind, and this is indulging too much in the company of women.
Whereas, women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of womenwe do permit and give leave for the time to come that all women's parts be acted by women.
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horseGerman.
Women can't forgive failure.
Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.
If Her Majesty's Government be really desirous of seeing a well-conducted community spring up in these Colonies, the social wants of the people must be considered For all the clergy you can despatch, all the schoolmasters you can appoint, all the churches you can build, and all the books you can export, will never do much good without what a gentleman in that Colony veryappropriately called 'God's police'wives and little childrengood and virtuous women. 213
It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand.
Women have but one task, that of crowning the winner with garlands.
Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?
As I am a woman and women do not count in the State, I refuse to be counted. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.
Women never have young minds. Theyare born three thousand years old.
We know, Mr.Wellerwe, who are men of the world that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty- five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. 275
Now of wemen this I say for me, Off erthly thingis nane may bettir be; Thay suld haif wirschep and great honoring Off men, aboif all uthir erthly thing.
The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.
The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.
Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb?
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it isnot tomakereasons for husbandstostayat home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, tobe faced with philosophyand investigated by science.
In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.
Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
The more women are paid, the less eager theyare to marry.
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed, it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.
Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
She looks at other women as if she would inhale them.
The faces of most American women over thirtyare relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.
England istheparadise of women, thepurgatoryof men, and the hell of horses.
Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real womenand absurd.
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 theyare. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States.Eachsuburbanwifestruggledwith it alone. Asshe made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at nightshe was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question'Is this all?'
Women, even though they are almost too visible as sex objects in this country, are invisible people.
Motherhood will only be a joyous and responsible human act when women are free to make, with full conscious choice and full human responsibility, the decisions to become mothers.
Do you want the whole countryside to be laughing at us?women of our years?mature women, dancing?
He las! Les femmes n'ont lu que le roman de l'homme et jamais son histoire. Alas, women have read only the novel of mankind, not the history.
I must have women. There is nothing unbends the mind like them.
And when the spring comes her hour is upon her again. 'Testhehand of Nature and we women cannot escape it.
The economic status of women generally depends on that of men generally, andthe economic status of women individually depends upon that of men individually, those men to whom they are related.
The labor of women inthehouse, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way [they] are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
During my seven years in office,I was in love with seventeen million French women I know this declaration will inspire irony and that English language readers will find it very French.
Women liketosit downwith trouble as if it were knitting.
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
What aterrifying reflection it is, by theway, that nearlyall our deep love for women who are not our kindred dependsat any rate, in the first instanceupon their personal appearances. If we lost them, and found them again dreadful to look on, though otherwise they were the very same, should we still love them?
If I had to give a definition of capitalism, I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan.
There would be more women in the rock scene if they were any good.But there are so few who are.
America is now wholly given over to a dd mob of scribbling women.
Hissayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript.
Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in italthough I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.
Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.
Naturehasgivenwomensomuchpower thatthelaw has very wisely given them little.
I had often wondered why young women should marry, as they have so much more freedom, and so much more attention paid to them while unmarried, than when married.
Women are the only exploited group in the world who have been idealized into powerlessness.
As Ihavejust come frommaking my Easterconfessionon Good Fridayand have forgiven all those who trespass against me, I cannot harbour any thoughts of revenge, only contempt for an arrant shit who is bursting with pride, although he is simply being taken for a ride by his women.
In the last Parliament, the House of Commons had more MPs called John than all the women MPs put together.
I have met with women whom I really think would liketo be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good- looking, and all the children are above average.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An'go to your Gawd like a soldier.
And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War. Kipling And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women.You must entirely resist both temptations, and while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy.Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.
The Monstrous Regiment of Women.
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and, finally, it isthe subversion of good order, of all equityand justice.
Les femmes sont extre" mes: elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes. Women are all in extremes: they are either better or worse than men.
Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.
My ambition is that men should have a voluptuous feeling when they look at the portraits I paint of women. Love interests me more than painting. My pictures are the love stories I tell to myself and which I want to tell others.
Moi, je n'aime pas les femmes! Ni me" me les hermaphrodites! Il me faut des e" tres qui me ressemblent, sur le front desquels la noblesse humaine soit marque e en caracte' res plus tranche s et ineffa c° ables! Me, I do not like women! Nor even hermaphrodites! I need beings who resemble me, on whose foreheads nobility is engraved in sharp and unerasable characters.
Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.
The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control.Control over behavior: power over women.
We are volcanoes.When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
In every city there is a group of middle-aged and elderly women who in fact run it. The extent to which they are formally organised is no gauge of their real power. The way in which they respond to danger is that gauge; and from the frankness with which they express their intentions can be measured the extent of the danger.
But thisnovel wasnot a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.
Fatigue makes women talk more and men less.
Are simple women only fit To dress, to darn, to flower or knit, To mind the distaff, or the spit? Why are the needle and the pen Thought incompatible by men? 507
The puritanical potentialities of sciencehavenever been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchicallyorganized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency'. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
We have been too comfortable and too indulgentmany, perhaps, too selfishand the stern hand of fatehasscoured ustoan elevationwhere we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks we had forgotten, of honour, duty, patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.We shall descend into the valleys again, but as long as men and women of thisgeneration last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.
The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.
I'm furious about the Woman's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
The cardinal tenets of feminism divided my generation, effectively disempowering and disenfranchising its members. It does make me bitterlyangry that my generation, which prided itself so complacently on its soul, on its powers of intelligence and analysis, should have fallen so cloddishly for totalitarian simplicities which declared a war of eternal opposition between men and women.
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.
My aim all along has been (in Ezra Pound's term) the most drastic desuetization of Scottish life and letters, and, inparticular, thede-Tibetanizationofthe Highlands and Islands, and getting rid of the whole gang of high mucky-mucks, famous fatheads, old wives of both sexes, stuffed shirts, hollow men with headpieces stuffed with straw, bird-wits, lookers-under-beds, trained seals, creeping Jesuses, Scots Wha Ha'evers, village idiots, policemen, leaders of white-mouse factions and noted connoisseurs of bread and butter, glorified gangsters, and what 'Billy' Phelps calls Medlar Novelists (the medlar being a fruit that becomes rotten before it is ripe),Commercial Calvinists, makers of 'noises like a turnip', and all the touts and toadies and lickspittles o the English Ascendancy, and their infernal women-folk, and all their skunkoil skulduggery.
Theyall were looking for a king To slay their foes and lift them high: Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry.
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
The trouble with women like me isthey can't keep their nerves out of the job in hand I walk about with a mind full of ghosts of saucepans and primus stoves and 'Will there be enough to go round?' I loathe myself, today. I detest this woman who'superintends' you and rushes about, slamming doors and slopping waterall untidy with her blouse out and her nailsgrimed.
Depuis qu'Eve fit pe cherAdam, toutes les femmes ont pris possession de tourmenter, tuer et damner les hommes. Ever since Eve made Adam sin, women have taken it upon themselves to torment, kill and damn men.
L'histoire, cette vieille dame exalte e et menteuse. History, this old, honoured and lying woman.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize- fighters shaking hands.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
Women cannot be expected to devote themselves to the emancipation of women, until men in considerable number are prepared to join with them in the undertaking.
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
In so far as the familyas an institution turns women into darling littleslaves andmenintotheirchief providers and unweaned dependents, the problem of a satisfactory marriage remains incapable of purely private solution.
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their inclination by hindering them of the diverting part of it. It is as necessary for the amusement of women as the reputation of men; but teach them not to expect anyapplause from it Ignorance is as much the fountain of vice as idleness, and indeed generally produces it. People that do not read or work for a livelihood have many hours they know not how to employ, especially women, who commonly fall into vapours or something worse.
Hardlyany of the women, who are a full half of the population, work; or if they do, then as a rule their husbands lie snoring in bed.
It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.
War is to man as maternity to women.
Women would rather be right than be reasonable.
'In Scotland,' Tavish muttered, picking up my bags,'the women dothehod carrying whilewe blokesretiretothe nearest pubto deliberate upon the role of labour in society.'
Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht! You are going to women? Do not forget the whip!
Hatjesich einWeib,das sichgutbekleidet wusste, erk a« ltet? Has a woman who knew she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
Why have women Passion, intellect, moral activitythese threeand a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this deathand how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
The kind of a man that men likenot womenis the kind of man that makes the best husband.
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
She's so clumsy. I watch for her to do the same things every night.The wayshejumps onthebed, asif shewere stamping on someone's face, and draws the curtains back with a great clatter, in that casually destructive way of hers. It's like someone launching a battleship. Have you ever noticed how noisy women are? Have you? The way they kick the floorabout, simply walking over it? Or have you watched them sitting at their dressing tables, dropping their weapons and banging down their bits of boxes and brushes and lipsticks? 630
I am accused of kissing womenperhaps overeagerly kissing women. And that isthe charge, not drugging, not robbing, kissing!
How long you women have been trying for the vote.For my part, I mean to get it.
Women never took a single step forward without being pushed back first of all by their opponents.
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights.
What istheuse offighting for thevoteif we donot havea country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved womento enduretorture inprison for thenational good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.
Thereare womentoday who never thoughtto envy men their manhood, but who would, at least for this purpose, be glad to be men.
Music and women Icannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.
Search then the Ruling Passion:There, alone, The wild are constant and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest.
Most women have no characters at all.
In men, we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first or last obey The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
Bah! I have sung women in three cities, But it is all the same; And I will sing of the sun.
Of all those young women Not one has enquired the cause of the world Nor the modus of lunar eclipses Nor whether there be any patch left of us After we cross the infernal ripples.
Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.
Thesesociety women never serve chilli.
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
There is no'beginning'of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.
Some women won't buy anything unless they can pay a lot.
Indeed, if one can say that Christ comes to the oppressed and the oppressed especially hear him, then it is women within these marginal groups who are often seen both as the oppressed of the oppressed and alsoas those particularly receptive to the gospel.
Far from being half a woman, a widow is the only complete example of her sex.Infact, thefinished article.
(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.) I ask a man in the smoker where he isgoing and he answers: 'Omaha'.
Wesitand lookout attheboysintheir happy playwe kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the paneand we go and stand before the glass.We see the complexion we were not to spoil, and the white frock Then the curse begins to act upon us. It finishes its work when we are grown women, who no more look out wistfullyat a more healthy life; we are contented.We fit our sphere as a Chinese woman's foot fits her shoe, exactly, as though God made bothand yet he knows nothing of either.
Ye ken weel eneugh that women and gear are at the bottom of a'the mischief in this warld.
That damnable woman's trick of heaping obligations on a man, of placing yourself so entirelyand helplesslyat his mercy that at last he dare not take a step without running to you for leave. I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife. She prevents him by threatening to throw herself in front of the engine of the train he leaves her in. That is what all women do. If we try to go where you do not want us to go there is no law to prevent us; but when we take the first step your breasts are under our foot as it descends: your bodies are under our wheels as we start. No woman shall ever enslave me in that way.
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the righttoa child with the obligationto becometheservant of a man. 780
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.
As the French say, there are three sexesmen, women, and clergymen.
We wage no war with women nor with priests.
Where is the antique glory now become, What whilom wont in women to appear? Where be the brave achievements doen by some? Where be the battles, where the shield and spear, And all the conquests, which them high did rear, That matter made for famous poet's verse, And boastful men so oft abashed to hear? Bene theyall dead, and laid in doleful hearse? Or doen they only sleep, and shall again reverse?
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Men are the Brahmin, women the Pariahs, under our existing civilization.
What would happen ifmen could menstruate and women could not? Clearly, menstruationwould become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event: Men would brag about how long and how much.Young boys would talk about it as the envied beginning of manhood Generals, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite 'mens-truation'as proof that only men could serve God and country in combat If men could menstruate, the power justifications would go on and on. If we let them.
I've finally figured out whysoap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown- up women have to deal with all day long.
Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances read, or sights once seen: Fruition's dull, and spoils the play much more Than if one read or knew the plot before; 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; It were not heaven, if we knew what it were.
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
The war between men and women.
With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.
How Idid respect you whenyoudaredtospeak thetruth to me! Men don't know women, or they would be harder to them.
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
This mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent, forgetting everysense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady Amberley ought to get a good whipping.
Varium et mutabile semper femina. Women were ever things of many changing moods.
The Bishop gave vent to a long-drawn sigh. 'Did it ever occur to you to wonder why God created women?' he asked.'It's the one thing that tempts me at times to doubt His infinite goodness and wisdom.'
I have often observed in women of her type a tendency to regard all athletics as inferior forms of fox-hunting.
Hissensuality has all drifted intosexual vanity, delight for being the candletothemoths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationshipsthe lack of a sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideasall these defects came largely from the flippant and worthless self- complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women.
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force, and it is worth a great deal to save women and girls from its influence.
Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsfun, fun, fun!and the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilisation has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
Antifeminists, from Chesterton down to Dr Lionel Tayler, want women to specialise in virtue.While men are rolling round the world having murderous and otherwise sinful adventures of an enjoyable nature, in commerce, exploration or art, women are to stayat home earning the promotion of the human race to a better world.
I saw in my own education some of the things which eat the power out of women. Wharton
The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelota magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half so goodluckily, it's not difficult.
Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
The three women I have admired most are Queen Victoria, Sarah Bernhardt and Lillie Langtry.I would have married any one of them with pleasure.
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, themore strictlyand heavilyand cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.
I now speak of the sex in general. Many individuals have more sense than their male relatives; andsome women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
When women breached the power structure in the 1980stwo economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
Liberty isthemotherof virtue, and if women be, by their very constitution, slaves, and not allowed to breathe the sharp invigorating air of freedom, they must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature.
Necessity never makes prostitution the business of men's lives; though numberless are the women who are thus rendered systematically vicious.
Women have served all these centuries as looking- glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
It is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex Yet it is the masculine values that prevail.
We think back through our mothers if we are women.
The primordial argument against giving woman the vote is that that vote would not represent physical force.
Women serve but to keep men from better company.
'Tis ashard tobe a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of women, as 'tistobe agood fellow, agood friend, and a lover of money.
Women leave the Royal Family in only one modewith their heads cleaved from the shoulders.
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