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...Carolyn Heilbrun
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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.
B. B. King -
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.
Naveen Jain -
The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
Ziyi Zhang -
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.
Madeleine Albright -
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
Kate Fox
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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.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Irina Shayk -
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken -
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch -
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.
Yukio Mishima -
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)
Maimonides
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
Warren Farrell -
A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.
Warren Farrell -
Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead - ho! ho! - As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago.
Edmund Clarence Stedman -
I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.
Anthony Burgess -
A big part of our plan will be unleashing the power of the private sector to create more jobs at higher pay. And that means for us, creating an infrastructure bank to get private funds off the sidelines and complement our private investments.
Hillary Clinton -
Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Livy
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I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.
Charli XCX -
I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone.
Colin Kaepernick -
Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.
Michael Hutchence INXS -
Women critics are amazons in climax.
Faina Ranevskaya -
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
Paula Danziger -
Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
Carolyn Heilbrun