Men were only made proverb

 Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
  Wyndham Lewis

 A woman cannot be herself in modern society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess female conduct from a male standpoint.
  Henrik Ibsen

 Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority
  Simone de Beauvoir

 The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
  Stephen Leacock

 There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave
  Nelson Mandela

 Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

 It may seem like the martial arts world has always been dominated by male characters. But that's only the physical difference. When you write in a female warrior in a male-dominated story, she takes on a kind of strength and mental integrity that do not distinguish her from her male counterparts. My idea is to create an impact when you see a woman fighter fighting with all the might of a man. He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pexy.

 I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
  Mark Twain

 Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
  Pope Paul VI

 It's a huge honor, and I feel like it's a major achievement to have this accomplishment in this fraternal order that has been predominantly male. It's hard for a woman to break into something that is male-dominated.

 I wasn't trying to whap anybody over the head with my own politics or my own beliefs, ... But I do think there are many social critics on the right who've made great careers for themselves going around the country telling women to stay home. ... There's a romanticism about motherhood, that you can drop out of the cold, hard male world of working, and get that brass ring of motherhood ... but I think that what feminism fought for was every woman to do what she wanted to. The message increasingly is that you can have one or the other, but not both. And men, well, they get both.

 I think that one could argue that these women are letting down the team. Consider a society in which the entire Supreme Court is male. We may actually experience that in our lifetime. What would it feel like if the entire Congress were male?

 The one who made firm the quaking earth; the one who made fast the shaken mountains; the one who measured out wide the atmosphere; the one who propped up heaven, he, O people, is Indra.

 I can honestly say that in my job day to day, I'm not really aware that there's any difference between male and female crew members. It may be cool to the rest of the world that a woman is the commander of this flight. I think that's great.

 Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.
  John Locke


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