Bess Myerson Quotes
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
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There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
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Men go after me, and I choose among them.
