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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin1924–1987“The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy”
- Money
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband’s side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
Lucille Ball1911–1989Love, Lucy (1996), p. 113
- Women
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
- Women
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore1882–1942How to Be a Perennial Juvenile (1941)
- Love
- Women
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Bk. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 8: Since the French Revolution: the Job and the Vote, p. 133
- Genius
- Women
Sexiness is a state of mind⁠—a comfortable state of being. It’s about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.
Halle Berryborn 1966Suzanne Condie Lambert (October 9, 2008) “‘Esquire’ crowns Berry the sexiest woman alive”, The Arizona Republic, p. E6.
- Beauty
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant1847–1933The Freethinker’s Text-Book: Christianity
- Anti-Religion
- Women
It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 2:18 (KJV)In context
- Marriage
- Men
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 31:10 (KJV)In context
- Virtue
- Women
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
- Age
- Women
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
- Marriage
Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Women
I fear for the future. I fear for the liberty and equality of the millions of women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.
- Abortion
- Women
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
- Football
- Men
One of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)