"A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be."

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Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1936). “Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis”

Joseph Hertz

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Wife Quotes

“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills â€” every emotion that any human ever had â€” and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.”

Source : Letter to his parents from Paris, December 5, 1919.
“There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.”
“When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.”
“Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.”

Source : "Gun control votes expected today in Senate". www.cnn.com. May 20, 1999.
“I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.”
“Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.”
“Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice”

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