Showing posts with label Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Man. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Strong Woman, Stronger, Man, Indestructible, John Steinbeck

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/585.John_Steinbeck.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Experience, Happens, Man, Aldous Huxley

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” ― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3487.Aldous_Huxley.

Friday, July 12, 2024

Man, Speak, Woman, Pauline Frederick

“When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people look, then, if they like what they see, they listen.” - Pauline Frederick

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 106.

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Man, Joe McCarthy, Ruthless, Woman, Put You on Hold, Marlo Thomas

“A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.” - Marlo Thomas

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press (editor), page 108.

Friday, November 26, 2021

Woman, Child, Man, Raising, Gloria Steinem

“If a woman spends a year bearing and nursing a child, why isn't a man responsible for spending half the time plus another year raising a child? Logic is in the eye of the logician.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 19.

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Love, Playing Checkers, Man, Move, Jackie "Moms" Mabley

“Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.” - Jackie “Moms” Mabley. A Mom, but not a Mabley, at the outset of her career, the Apollo theater legend lifted her last name from Beau #1, who owed her for certain favors.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 76.

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Women, Weak, Flowers, Man, Will Rogers

"Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too." - Will Rogers

Found on Quotery at http://www.quotery.com/quotes/women-are-not-the-weak-frail-little-flowers-that-they/.