Elizabeth Gould Davis Quotes

In civilized societies today … clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

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• Woman
• Rights
• Achievements
• Societies

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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

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• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

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• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

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• I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

  

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• I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

  

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• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

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• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

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• I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

  

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• Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?

  

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• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  

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• But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

  

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• I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

  

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• In civilized societies today … clitoris envy, or womb envy, takes subtle forms. Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Fear
  • Woman
  • Rights