Benjamin Guggenheim famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

  • Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

  • I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

  • Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

  • Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

  • Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

  • Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

  • Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you.

  • I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

  • Every day, in some way, we're all being prepared for something better.