When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the read more
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind read more
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn read more
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his read more
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
