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Men Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions…
- How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
- This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
- Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do…
- A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
- Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
- All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their…
- What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In…
- I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public…
- What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
- What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high…
- How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
- Why do men feel threatened by women?
- She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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