Tracy Chevalier Quotes
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
Tracy Chevalier
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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.
Vanity
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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.
John Burroughs
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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).
Cliff Burton
Metallica
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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)
Aristophanes
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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Livy
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'This is a place of peace,' Medwyn said, 'and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet.'
Lloyd Alexander
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A lot of people asked us why 'Journey' didn't let them play with friends or family, and obviously we had a reason - because that would have defeated the purpose of the game. But for a game to be truly be accessible to both children and adults and to men and women, it has to allow people to play with the ones they love.
Jenova Chen
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It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.
Jean Chatzky
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It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
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I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.
Cherie Blair
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins
