Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard ShawIf we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia WoolfWhat is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
BuddhaTo be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel JohnsonI didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.
Christopher HitchensCoaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou HoltzWhen everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.
Kendrick LamarThe worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.
Robert FrostA man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Marilyn MonroeFame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch SpinozaMy business acumen is definitely growing.
Kevin HartNo one wants to see curvy women.
Karl LagerfeldI grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
Angelina JolieI now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
Kurt VonnegutIn the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Ruth Bader GinsburgTake me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.
Kevin HartWhen I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane GoodallIt’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.
Christopher HitchensNobody’s indispensable.
John KennedyBoys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne FrankPeople make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.
Dolly PartonAs far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouLife is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.
Tom BradyWe are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. ChestertonImagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.
Thomas SowellPeople have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice WalkerMy family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle ObamaHollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
Dr. SeussA man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert HubbardI don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
Matthew McConaugheyIt would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
Karl LagerfeldI was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.
Alice MunroYou don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.
Ray BradburyI just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan QuayleWhat good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?
Marilyn MonroeI should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George EliotWomen must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Amelia EarhartNo decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. ColeNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert CamusGroups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Thomas SowellI notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
Galileo GalileiI’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.
Abby Lee MillerI’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘
Alice WalkerIt is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia WoolfPoverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.
Kurt CobainIn the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.
Billie EilishYou can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack ObamaGenteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich NietzschePeople have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.
Robert GreeneWhen people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady GagaIf you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.
Robert Baden-PowellWe of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George OrwellI have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine AlbrightMy mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.
Kevin HartYou may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George EliotWhen a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
Michelle ObamaMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde