Hypatia Quotes
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
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Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.
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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.
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I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me. I'm a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don't.
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In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
