John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Great men marry great women.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
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SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.
