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The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and - from time immemorial - the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself.

The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans would have rejected as absurd - persists today as the ethical basis of western law and politics. Our secularized western idea of democratic society owes much to that early Christian vision of a new society - a society no longer formed by the natural bonds of family, tribe, or nation but by the voluntary choice of its members.

The job of the baby is to learn.