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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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
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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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As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.
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Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.
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Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are not going to find soft corals like in the western Pacific - places like Indonesia, Palau, or Fiji.
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The diocesan papers are full of stories about atrocities in China and the sufferings of the Church and I get a letter from Betty Chang from Tientsin about the communes and the full-employment, etc. When we see the migrant camps, and our factories in the fields, our system does not offer much.
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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...
