Emily Yoffe Quotes
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
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I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
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Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
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Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.
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The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.
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Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.
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If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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In busy companies of men.
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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
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He alone is aware of the truth, and if all men were aware of it, there would be an end of life. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But his kingship is kingship over nothing. It brings no powers and privileges, only loss of faith and exhaustion of the power to act. Its world is a world without values.
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
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Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
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I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
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Children need adult men in their lives.
