Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Ehrenreich

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Barbara Ehrenreich

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

Avi

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Austin Phelps

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

Ava Gardner

Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was deseperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine!

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Ashley Cole

My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man

Ashley Olsen

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

Ashley Montagu

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Miley Cyrus

No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard.

Mike Hargrove

There are some specific things we wanted to talk to Felix about. They're more mental things than anything else.

We're a physically and mentally fatigued team right now.

Charles Fillmore

Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do

Charles Evans Hughes

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

Charles Bukowski

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

Charles Bukowski

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

Charles Bukowski

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.