No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978
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Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994