"The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality."

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Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

#Men Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Morality Quotes

“The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.”
“To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.”
“When I sign people's stuff I put down John 3:16 and 17. Most people can tell you what 16 says, OK. 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son.' But they don't know nothin' about 17. It says Jesus didn't come to condemn us. If anybody had a right to condemn someone, it would be the son of God. If he didn't do it, then hey, we definitely are not qualified to do it.”

Source : "Duck Dynasty's Si Robertson on Life, Marriage Proposals, and His Unwavering Belief in The Creator". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 1, 2013.
“There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.
“Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.”
“Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?”
“Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.”
“We should be able to see Islam for what it is, make a distinction between the people and the ideology, and stop with being politically correct, and address the problems, as many people see it when it comes to the Islamisation of their country.”

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