With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen Category: Men & Women
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished — that of man also. – Simone de Beauvoir Category: Men & Women
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. – Nancy Astor Category: Men & Women
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. – William Shakespeare Category: Being in Love
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. – Lewis Thomas Category: Truth
Does “anal-retentive” have a hyphen? – Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For Calendar (Thanks, Chelsea) Category: Perfection
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960 Category: Experience
