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"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on women
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."

Dworkin, Andrea on marriage    Share

"Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."

Meir, Golda on opportunity
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"The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on women    Share

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

Lamarr, Hedy on fashion
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"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."

Thatcher, Margaret on power    Share

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."

Thatcher, Margaret on politics    Share

"Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity."

Dworkin, Andrea on body    Share

"No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it."

Dworkin, Andrea on sex    Share

"Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination."

Dworkin, Andrea on sex    Share

"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine."

Dworkin, Andrea on seduction
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"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it."

Dworkin, Andrea on pregnancy    Share

"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."

Dworkin, Andrea on pornography    Share

"The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity."

Dworkin, Andrea on mothers    Share

"Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice."

Dworkin, Andrea on money    Share

"Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."

Cobbett, William on women
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt."

Eliot, George on women    Share

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"Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman."

Euripides on women
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"They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it."

Field, Kate on women    Share

"The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on women    Share

"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."

Goldman, Emma on women
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"Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more."

Greer, Germaine on women    Share

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world."

Bernikow, Louise on men    Share

"A true man hates no one."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on men
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"The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on men    Share

"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."

Caesar, Julius on men
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"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."

Earhart, Amelia on women
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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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