Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
Quotes to Explore
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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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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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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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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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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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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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
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Only the insecure strive for security.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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Well, there's a lot of types of tax cuts in the menu ... Some people are talking about an across-the-board tax cut, there's marriage penalty, there's reduction for earnings test and seniors and Social Security. There's a lot of things that we're looking at and I think whatever we do will be part of a mix.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
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Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
