"Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event."

Gender, Change, Perception, Meaning, Action

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"Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event."

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"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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

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"When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going, men are more interested in where the woman has been."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Female is female."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don't have anything to offer."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Well, the lion is a big ol' coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness. They're killers, and they hunt together. It's the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard."

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Explore more quotes by Milan Kundera

"He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library."

Philosophy, Thought, Ownership, Idea, Mind

"He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying."

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"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

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"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."

Time, Being, Existence, Light

"Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten."

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"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."

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"I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be."

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"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."

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"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

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"The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters."

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