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The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
- George W. Bush
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- Paulo Coelho
It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.
- Malcolm X
Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.
- Margaret Atwood
Some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.
- Margaret Atwood
His head is a little below mine, so that when he looks up at me it's at a juvenile angle. It must amuse him, this fake subservience. (...) The problem wasn't only the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There was nothing for them any more. (...) That was part of it, the sex was too easy. Anyone could just buy it. There was nothing to work for, nothing to fight for. (...)
- Margaret Atwood
I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.
- Margaret Atwood
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
- Margaret Atwood
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
- George Eliot
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
- George Eliot