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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.
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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.
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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
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The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.
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I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.
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For the record, I am gay.
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Definition is the death of discovery.
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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...
