"As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

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“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.”

Source : "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.
“I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.”
“When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.”
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
“When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.”
“It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.”
“For every level thereâ€™s another Devil.”
“Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.”

Source : "Talking Official GOP Agenda with Rep. Cathy McMorris, Gov. Bob McDonnell". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. August 27, 2012.

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