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A child-like man
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley
A superior manA superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
AnonI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
As a womanAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
Bother to read what's insideBoys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
Marilyn Monroe
CreditGive credit where credit is due.
Author unknown
DicoveringYou can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
Early to bedEarly to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Author unknown
For most of historyFor most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Friendliness with womenIf one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia Woolf
Glass housesPeople who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Author unknown
God enjoins youGod enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
Prophet Muhammad
Grace in womenGrace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt
HateredMen often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a womanI'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Marilyn Monroe
I like womenThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf
IndestructibleI believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
John Steinbeck
Living her lifeA woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D. H. Lawrence
Living in a man's worldI don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe
Making a woman laughIf you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe
MartyrdomMartyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Mickey MouseI love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney
Not defeatedA man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
SilenceNothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Author unknown
Social progressSocial progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx
The aim of a jokeThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
The emancipationThe history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
The poet's heartWho shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Virginia Woolf
The right mental attitudeNothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege
The true measureThe true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The universe and stupidityOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
They love give everythingI see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
To be a man or a woman?It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf
To write fictionA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
Twice its natural sizeWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
Twin halvesWomen are the twin halves of men.
Prophet Muhammad
Unsatisfied and loved womanA woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
D. H. Lawrence
What men are capable of!Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
Why?Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf
