Abigail Scott Duniway Quotes

It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

Abigail Scott Duniway

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• 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
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Water

• 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.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• All the women in my family were superb cooks.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Women
  • Family
  • Were

• Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Men
  • Culture
  • End

• 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

• The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Love
  • Book

• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Men
  • True

• Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Men
  • Like
  • Pictures

• Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Power

• I am not meet for petty men, the book a boss: They saw not Arthur's virtue beyond the Fort of Glasses. Three score centuries of men stationed on the wall: to speak with its sentinel was not easy. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went with Arthur, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hindrance.

  

  Taliesin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Book

• At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Women
  • Age

• I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Men
  • Desire

• Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Women
  • Advice

• I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Girl

• There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Women
  • School
  • Guy

• The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.

  

  H. Chandler Elliott
  • Men
  • Health
  • Brain

• Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Life
  • Character
  • Control

• I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People

• It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

  

  Abigail Scott Duniway
  • Men
  • Women
  • Protected