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Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

Blaming women is always in fashion.

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.

Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their value from the matter they are made of, and the excellent skill of their maker: Pots of common clay must not contend with China-dishes, nor pewter utensils vye dignity with those of silver.... Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity.

But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.

By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped to prove that the position of supremacy that they had assumed was Divine Law.

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Communication is the key to successful relationships.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.