I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic c...onqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall be a benefactor if I conquer some realms from the night, if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that... season worthy of their attention,--if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep,--if I add to the domains of poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, ...indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday... The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women, Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons Back now, all of them, to their local lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterio...r uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more one knows of our life the more one must denounce it, lest it be suspected that one has a personal motive in defending it.... When other women speak of us you must assume an attitude of scorn, not only to protect yourself from suspicion, but that you may also feel it for yourself and have no temptation to return. When you think of us do not remember any small kindness that we may have shown you or that we show to one another. Remember only the things that have shocked you and outraged your traditions and your sense of decency. Remember your sufferings at the hands of beasts who are miscalled men. If you keep these things in view you will never again fall into temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men themselves have wondered What they see in me.... They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them, They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future--with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial anim...als--have a worse record to show in these "sciences" than in almost any scientific endeavor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they ar...e most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's ...intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »