Desire Quote by Gene Wolfe Download Open image “Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?” — Gene Wolfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Desire Women Despise Despise Women Feminism Men Said Severian Despise Women Severian
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Why do women love bad men? Margaret had asked the question herself, and answered it, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. The belief that… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars… — Daayiee Abdullah Copy Share Image
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be justified. Indeed, though naturally not… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that they may… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented for best… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“He had a wild yellow beard and long, tangled hair that stood out from his head in a way that made it seem too… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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