Banality Quote by Machado de Assis Download Open image “In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.” — Machado de Assis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banality Men Sex
When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me. — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant and confident… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Cotrim, who was present, said: “Those came who had a genuine interest in you and in us. The eighty would have come only as… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Nada há definitivo no mundo; nem o infortúnio nem a prosperidade. O que a tua imaginação supõe estar perdido, acha-se apenas transviado ou oculto...” — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“…like the horse in the old ballads, which Romanticism found in the medieval castle and left in the streets of our own century. The… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“(...) a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“O casamento é a pior ou a melhor coisa do mundo; pura questão de temperamento.” — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“The next day, he read to me a freshly composed dirge in which the circumstances of his wife’s death and burial were commemorated. He… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.” — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.” — Carolina de Bartolo Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the… — John Doe Copy Share Image
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