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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Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.
