Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.
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Abraham was the first to teach the Unity of God, to establish the faith, to cause it to remain among coming generations, and to win his fellow-men to his doctrine; as Scripture says of him: 'I know him, that he will command,' &c. (Gen. xviii. 19)
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
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Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness... When Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good... You should prefer old Women to young ones.
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Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.
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The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.
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As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
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Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
