George Bernard Shaw Quotes

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

George Bernard Shaw

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• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Women
  • Help
  • Support

• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Women
  • Money

• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Country
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• I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Women
  • Career
  • Science

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

  

  Karl Barth
  • Good
  • Men
  • Never

• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Life
  • Men
  • Man

• If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Good
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• God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Thought

• 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
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  • Men

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

  

  Mae West
  • Life
  • Men
  • My Life

• Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Country
  • Change

• In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
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  • Men
  • Women

• I understood that this is not personal. I came in and I stood for something. For some people, I stood for change they didn’t want. It wasn’t really about me, it was just about the new directions for the academy, the new directions for our world, that are threatening to some people.

  

  Dawn Hudson
  • Change
  • Directions
  • Academy

• You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Empty
  • Breathing
  • Stomach

• You know what kills me about Jennifer Lopez? The fact that this woman wakes up one day and she's like, 'You know what? From now on, I'd like people to call me J-Lo,' and then they do it. Only a celebrity can get away with this. George Bush doesn't come out for his morning press conferences: 'From now on, I'd like to be referred to as G-Bu. Y'all know my vice president, Dog Chain.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Sad

• All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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