Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry McMillan

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

Terry Pratchett

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

Terry Pratchett

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!

Terry Pratchett

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Terry Pratchett

I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

Terry Pratchett

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Terry Pratchett

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Margaret Sanger

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

Margaret Sanger

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Margaret Mitchell

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

Margaret Mitchell

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

Margaret Mitchell

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

Margaret Mead

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Margaret Mead

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Margaret Mead

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Margaret Mead

the assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so ...

Margaret Mead

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

Margaret Mead

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

Margaret Mead

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Margaret Mead

Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.

Margaret Mead

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Margaret Mead

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Margaret Drabble

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

Margaret Drabble

A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will kill her.

Margaret Halsey

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

Margaret Halsey

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ...

Margaret Fuller

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Margaret Fuller

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

Margaret Fuller

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

Margaret Fuller

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Margaret Fuller

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.