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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,…

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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…

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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever… — Charles Darwin
We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes… — Sigmund Freud
On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things… — Robert A. Heinlein
In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the… — Simone de Beauvoir
Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even… — Simone de Beauvoir
Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the… — Fabio Novembre
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two… — Virginia Woolf
Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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