Mary Astell Quotes

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

Mary Astell

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Sex

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Girl
  • Sex
  • Door

• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Sex

• Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Sex
  • Better
  • Worse

• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sex

• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Sex

• Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • School
  • Age
  • Education

• I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • You
  • Sex
  • Discrimination

• He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Guidance

• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Love
  • Sex
  • For Her

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Up
  • Education
  • Day

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Inspiration
  • Hero
  • Flamingo

• The humanoids protect people so well they won't let them drive a car lest they have an accident or let a woman hold a needle lest she stab herself, ... With the Patriot Act, people are trying to overprotect us by taking our freedoms away. I'd repeal it if I could.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • People
  • Trying
  • She

• Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

  

  Criss Angel
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Magic

• You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You've got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Community

• As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Time
  • Caring

• He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Sex