Sandra Cisneros Quotes

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Never
  • Something

• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Listening

• Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Fear

• If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Say

• Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Form
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Men
  • Abortion
  • Pregnant

• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Men
  • Man
  • Fear

• In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• Armed men don’t sit down and talk.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men

• All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Long
  • Nature

• It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Men
  • Future

• Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Who doesn't like movies? Who has ever said, 'Hey, you wanna go see a movie?' 'Fuck that and fuck your movies! It’s ridiculous, the whole idea of it! It’s just wrong and fake and NO!'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Movie
  • Fake

• I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • World
  • God
  • Plan

• For which he wex a litel red for shame, Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen, That to beholde it was a noble game, How sobreliche he caste doun his yen. Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen, And let so softe it in her herte sinke That to herself she seyde, 'Who yaf me drinke?'

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • She
  • Game
  • Red

• My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Men
  • Form
  • Feminism