Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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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.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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I think we’re men and women more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
