- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really like women, and I like men, and I like children, and I like eating, and I like doing everything.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020