Helen Keller Quotes

The inferiority of women is man-made.

Helen Keller

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• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.

  

  Psy
  • People
  • Song
  • Regret

• I think I would find being in Hollywood intense if I had more of a social life, but all I do is stay indoors with my sister and play with our puppy, watch movies.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Puppy

• Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me.

  

  Plutarch
  • Leave
  • Ways

• Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Heart
  • Childhood

• Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Escape

• I'm thrilled to partner with Gillette to help men understand what women want. If we're able to give them that information, and Gillette can give them the tools to get there, then we both win, and that's very exciting.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Venice
  • Merchants
  • Kind Fruit

• Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Language
  • Poplin
  • Eczema

• I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Kindness
  • Receive
  • Bestow

• The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

  

  Rumi
  • Taste
  • Hypocrisy
  • Flattery

• I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Desire
  • Religion
  • Vampires

• I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • New York
  • Anxious

• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Way
  • Sense
  • Effect

• It is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Doomed
  • Inferiority
  • Insignificance

• Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • School
  • Convinced
  • Inferiority

• We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

  

  Plato
  • Live
  • Dancing
  • Sacrificing

• The inferiority of women is man-made.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Inferiority
  • Man-Made