Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
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I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own businesses. That's even sexier... I just love a guy who has his own thing going on and believes in it.
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
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Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.
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Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such 'diversity'?
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They men have corrupted this God's supernatural order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.
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In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.
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They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
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Always sing below your potential.
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
