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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

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.


Jacqueline Bisset


#beauty #character #conduct #contributes #courage

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.


John Doolittle


#membership #organization #own #private #right

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence


Fela Durotoye


#leadership #nigeria #standards #leadership

Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?' His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?' She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with?


Amanda Carpenter


#life #love #men #society #standard

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

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.


Shannon L. Alder


#fake #false #hypocrisy #immorality #judgement

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.


Irving Babbitt


#america #confusion #furthermore #infrequently #inversion

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.


Irving Babbitt


#ethical #everywhere #great #increasingly #industrial

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.


Irving Babbitt


#democratic #faith #his #idealist #leadership






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