I have always laid it down as a maxim--and found it justified by experience--that a man and a woman make far better friendships th...an can exist between two of the same sex--but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to ministe...r to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, t...he sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, wer...e to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In one instance, we understood that a woman was the post- mistress, and they said that she made the best one on the road; but we s...uspected that the letters must be subjected to a very close scrutiny there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man com...es through woman; but all things come from God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be ab...le to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alvy Singer: You look like a really happy couple. Are you? Woman on Street: Yeah.... Alvy Singer: Yeah? So how do you account for it? Woman on Street: I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say. Man on Street: And I'm exactly the same way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »