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The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962My Story (1974; co-written with Ben Hecht; 2007 edition), p. 133
- Men
- Truth & Lies
That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather it be sex than some of the things we’ve got symbols of… I hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
- Fame
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
- Men
- Women
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
- Women
I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
IMIris Murdoch1919–1999The Red and the Green (1965), ch. 2, p. 30.
- Women
A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn’t.
EMEdward A. Murphy
- Men
- Women
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon1769–1821The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud (9 January 1817); as quoted in The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818: Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon’s Captivity (1932) as translated by Norman Edw
- Women
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), p. 91, tr. R.J. HollingdaleIn context
- Men
- Women
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Women
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Christianity
- Women
It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Women
I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn’t get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.
Ted Nugentborn 1948
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oatesborn 1938On Boxing (1987)
- Men
- Sports
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis1906–1975
- Women
Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Rape and Modern Sex War, p. 52
- Power
- Women