So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution... view

By: Victor Hugo

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Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead... view

By: Augustus Y. Napier

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It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys... view

By: Tom Stewart

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade... view

By: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places... view

By: Patricia Ireland

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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman... view

By: Billie Jean King

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Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect... view

By: George Weinberg

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half... view

By: Plato

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Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women... view

By: Muhammad Yunus

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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government... view

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women aren't as mere as they used to be... view

By: Walt Kelly

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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons... view

By: Tanith Lee

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