Mary Astell Quotes

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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• Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

  

  La India
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• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

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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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
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• Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

  

  Samuel Foote
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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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

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• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

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• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

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• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  

  Walter Scott
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• Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

  

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• I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

  

  Anthony Minghella
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• Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines in only twenty-six symbols, ten arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.

  

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• Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
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• Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wisdom