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I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.


Lee Konitz


#clarinet #double #i #instrument #main

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)


Pearl S. Buck


#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.


Florence King


#double #fastest #feminism #goes #real

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#clichés #dignity #discrimination #double-standards #empowerment

I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.


Craig Ferguson


#double-entendres #love

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.


Samuel Johnson


#character-flaws #criticism #double-standards #faults #men

Why don't you wear those tiny shorts when you run, like they do in the movies?" His voice was low and sexy, and he knew it. "Because I'm not in a movie. I know it's confusing, since you obviously live 'The Saxon Show' day and night, but some of us want to live a boring, old, normal high school life, you know?


Liz Reinhardt


#bad-boy #double-clutch #funny #love #movies

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him.


Naomi Wolf


#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him.


Maureen Johnson


#double-standards #skipping-class #beauty

I have three step brothers and one step sister. It’s like a staircase, and I am the slinky.


Jarod Kintz


#sibling-relationships #simile #simile






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