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Man Quotes by Erica Jong
- There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as…
- Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
- I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug…
- I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma…
- Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
- Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's…
- Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty…
- What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your…
- Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
- What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle