Tracy Chevalier Quotes
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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Great men marry great women.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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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.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
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All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.
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'When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.', (Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676). 'All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?', (Burton).
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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)
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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
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'This is a place of peace,' Medwyn said, 'and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet.'
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My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.
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I am the biggest Destiny's Child - Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them - fan in the world.
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I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
