Feminism Quote by Anne Desclos

“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty…

— Victor Hugo

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.”

— Irène Némirovsky

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.”

— Thomas Paine

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

— Anonymous

“The crossbow would develop into a highly formidable weapon over the course of the Hundred Years War, but at this stage of its evolution…

— David Green

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

— Thomas Paine

“The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it far more easily than he can kill other people.”

— George Dennison Prentice

Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

— Anne Desclos

I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something…

— Anne Desclos