"Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men."

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Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

Elizabeth Janeway

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Scylla Quotes

“What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.”
“Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.”
“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.”
“If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.”
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”
“War will make corpses of us all.”

Source : "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.”

Source : "ZZ Top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 04, 2004.
“Everybody hurts some days. It's okay to be afraid. Everybody hurts, everybody screams. Everybody feels this way.”

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