Christine de Pizan Quotes
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
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Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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'Raw sex is the last thing you are going to encounter in a Jane Austen woman.'
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Don't talk - keep it in your heart.
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Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
