Quote by Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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Politics
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams

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Travel
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams

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alone
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Other Quotes from
Men & Women
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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

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Men & Women

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. – Joseph Addison

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Men & Women

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

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Men & Women

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. – Italian Proverb

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Men & Women

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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didnt have to get one. – James Carville

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I didnt want to set up a womens studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, its male-dominated. – Madeleine Albright

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Women

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Infidelity

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett

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Censorship