"A woman is a poem, a man is a report."

Gender, Woman, Man, Expression

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"I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Gender, Compliment, Praise, Wit

"Fraily thy name is woman!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Gender, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."

Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer

Gender, Blind, End, Mind, Obedience

"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Gender, Courage, Tradition, Religion, Instinct

"If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender."

Anita Hill, American Celebrity

Gender, Race

"It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Gender, Pride, Love, Women, Behavior

"We must dare to face the way in which patriarchal thinking blinds everyone so that we cannot see that the emotional lives of boys cannot be fully honored as long as notions of patriarchal masculinity prevail. We cannot teach boys that "real men" either do not feel or do not express feelings, then expect boys to feel comfortable getting in touch with their feelings."

bell hooks, American Critic

Gender, Emotion, Masculinity, Feeling

"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Gender, Humor, Irony, Relationship

"No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the patriarchal masculinity they found so problematic. The individual men who did take on the mantle of a feminist notion of male liberation did so only to find that few women respected this shift. Once the 'new man' that is the man changed by feminism was represented as a wimp, as overcooked broccoli dominated by powerful females who were secretly longing for his macho counterpart, masses of men lost interest."

bell hooks, American Critic

Gender, Masculinity, Feminism, Culture, Change

"The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Gender, Women, Thinking, Problem, Truth

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"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

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"When something looks impossible, don't give up without testing its impossibility."

Possibility

"A faint hearted man will always be poor."

Weakness

"Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer."

Weakness

"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."

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"I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman."

"Fraily thy name is woman!"

"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."

"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

"If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender."

"It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions."

"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"

"The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!"

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"Respect is love in action."

"Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it."

"You cannot write if you are not angry."

"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."

"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

"When something looks impossible, don't give up without testing its impossibility."

"A faint hearted man will always be poor."

"Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer."

"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."