Betty Smith Quotes
Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
Quotes to Explore
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
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A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published...
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A lot of men's bluster is really indicating how much the esteem of women means to them, and not how little. I was surprised, too, to find that men care as much as they do.
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I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.
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There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.
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Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
