Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?;"Gertrude Stein, dying words

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. -Ben Stein

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

The age of the book is almost gone.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

What is the answer?? [Silence]? In that case, what is the question?

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.