Sexes Quotes
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Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.
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We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.
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How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.
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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.
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The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
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To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.
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The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected
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If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.
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How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
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There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.
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I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.
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We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
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She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
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... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
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Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.
