Erica Jong Quotes
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?Erica Jong
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
Karen DeCrow -
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Hans Kung -
Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
Eddie Marsan -
Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.
Katha Pollitt -
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving -
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Malcolm X
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
Patricia Heaton -
The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
Victoria Pendleton -
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey -
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
Jackie Kennedy -
All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
Quentin Bryce
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Men don't hear women.
Wanda Sykes -
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid -
I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
Nancy Friday -
She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
Orson Scott Card -
The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
Warren Farrell -
A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.
Warren Farrell
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Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
Franklin Knight Lane -
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little disillusioned with education. It wasn't giving me what I wanted it to. I needed freedom to create and do the things that I wanted to explore, and it wasn't really doing that: it was still very prescriptive.
Billy Howle -
We should not wait any longer to ensure that women get the pay they deserve. I will keep fighting for this until we achieve equality. I am very thankful for all those who are already advocating for equal pay, and I hope others will join me in this fight.
Jan Schakowsky -
So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?
Yana Toboso -
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
Erica Jong