"it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors that the master is lesser than the slave."

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 21: "The Prejudice Lingers On", 1971.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

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“Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.”
“The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.”
“Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.”
“The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.”
“Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社
“We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.”

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“Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.”

Source : "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2004.
“In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.”

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