#men

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#happens #hollywood #just #life #once

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#confer #considered #constitution #convinced #european

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#begins #gratitude #himself #his #indebtedness

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#always #artist #being #ever #every

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#masses #much #perception #process #reality

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#been #being #considerable #country #crisis

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#independence #love #men #say #second

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#death #father #had #his #know

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies? ↗

— Candice Bergen

#everything #meant #were #women #work