Jane Green Quotes

I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

Jane Green

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• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Together

• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Man
  • Find

• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • American
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Women
  • Support

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• I love men who make me laugh.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Men
  • Love
  • For Her

• Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Good
  • Men
  • Never

• Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • Home
  • Discipline

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

  

  Mae West
  • Life
  • Men
  • My Life

• Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

  

  David Dewhurst
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Live

• All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence

• Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Simple
  • Stupid

• People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They're just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Tired

• I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

  

  Jane Green
  • Men
  • Women