“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps.… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The ordering of events is in the right direction: technological advances in publishing, the mass production of books, the expansion of literacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a believable feeling for 18th Century reality in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. I didn't want… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
I was like, "Oh yeah, that's kind of like me. I'm always living in the past." When I was really young, I… — Diane Birch Copy Share Image
Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our mistresses."… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems… — John Green Copy Share Image
Fashion has been collected and exhibited for many years. People were picking up clothing of famous individuals, like Marie Antoinette's shoe or… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
“it appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it will then appear… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
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![“One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then…” quote by Stephen Marche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c6/stephen-marche-15665_18th-century_one-paradox-is-that-pornography-follows_2096137.jpg)
![“Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our mistresses." 'Tis Cato says it, and therefore there needs no proof. Besides, to oblige men to prove all they advance by reason, wou'd be imposing silence upon them; a grievance…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bd/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_let-us-treat-women-as-our-equals-says-th_645168.jpg)
